Hey, I've been having a hell of a time running up2date the past 2 days. Anyway, this morning i used it to upgrade the newest packages and i got the following problem:
as up2date was running lilo -c to test the new kernel boot, a message popped up stating that: could not delete /var/lib/rpm directory not empty This completely hung the system and it stopped responding. I had to force reboot and when the system came back up, i am getting the following behavior: - when i run up2date, it fails with a fatal error. The /var/lib/rpm directory is now empty for some reason. I ran rpm --initdb and rpm --rebuilddb and Packages reappears in /var/lib/rpm. But up2date fails again, suggesting i run rpm --rebuilddb. The exact message is cannot open Providename index using db3. It must be the files that vanished from /var/lib/rpm. I think my system is okay (please tell me if i'm wrong) but i'd like to get up2date working again. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be very much appreciated. Can i fix this by re-installing the up2date rpm? When i try it fails because of a dependecy failure but it appears to me that is due to the missing files from /var/lib/rpm Is there any way to regenerate them? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
