I noticed it when doing a set of upgrades yesterday. The first was the kernel,
so I rebooted. Right after that I tried using plain old rpm -Uvh abiword, etc
and it crashed then. rebuild wouldn't work then either. no red carpet (don't
use ximian gnome), and kpackage had not been used in weeks.
I went digging around google groups, and started trying -vv --rebuild, and
removed the last package on the list as someone suggested, but then it would
crash on the next one up. The first package I deleted was TWM, so that's not
anything I've touched since I installed RH 7.1. Based on what I read, it
sounds like most of my RPM database is screwed.
Anyway, I'm fed up with RH for the time being, and my solution is a stack of
disks - debian rescue,root,drivers. I'll probably run unstable until I manage
to screw up glibc and half my programs again, not sure how, it just always
happens when I run unstable ;) I guess I should learn how to make my
own .deb's or something to keep better track of everything I install and change.
Patrick
Quoting Emanuel Masciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I had that problem on 7.1 also. What happened was there was a program
> that did not terminate properly and had the DB open, so nothing else
> could use it. Once I rebooted it worked fine, until I ran Red Carpet.
> That did it again so I had to reboot, etc etc. If you ran Red Carpet
> or
> a similar program, that may be it. Try rebooting, it fixed mine. I
> had
> to reinstall redcarpet to actually use it and install RPM's.
>
> Emanuel Masciarelli
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: fixing RPM database
>
> I seem to be having a problem with RPM (Redhat 7.1). A few days ago
> it
> would
> no longer remove or upgrade packages, rpm would segfault. I just
> tried
> doing a
> rpm --rebuild and that segfaults as well. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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