On Wed May 30, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0700, John Johnson wrote:
> rpm --rebuilddb
He said he tried that...
Sounds to me like his index is hosed beyond repair.
I would fill out a Red Hat bugzilla report and let them know what
happened... sounds like their upgrade is no good. =(
You could try reverting to an older version of rpm and/or db3 and see
if that helps, but it might already be mucked.
> > Ever since I upgraded RPM to rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x.i386.rpm and the
> > database to db3-3.1.17-4.6x.i386 , I've been experiencing problems.
> > I think my RPM database has been screwed up. is there a solution
> > for this other than re-installing my entire system ?
> >
> > Here's the problem:
> >
> > ( root@Virgin )-( Thu May 31 01:49:39am )-( /usr/src/rpm )
> > # rpm -i rpm-4.0.2-5x.i386.rpm
> > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> >
> > And when I try to issue a rebuilddb...
> >
> > ( root@Virgin )-( Thu May 31 01:50:10am )-( /usr/src/rpm )
> > # rpm --rebuilddb
> > error: cannot open Packages index
> >
> > As you can see I'm issuing these commands as root...I'm on Linux
> > version 2.2.17 on a RedHat 6.2
> >
> > I would appreciate some help here. Thanks guys.
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