seth vidal <mailto:skvidal@phy.duke.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:21 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> seth vidal <mailto:skvidal@phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>>> My memory is ok...I recently upgraded it and ran memtest overnight.
>>>
>>> It exits...returning me to the normal prompt. No errors or
>>> anything.
>>>
>>
>> Try rebuilding your rpmdb:
>> 1. kill all jobs accessing the rpmdb in any way (rpm, up2date,
>> rpmquery, yum)
>> 2. cd /var/lib/rpm ; rm -f __db*
>> 3. rpm --rebuilddb
>>
>> try the command again.
>>
>> -sv
>
> That didn't work. I should note that this started after I upgrade
> from
> 2.1.3. Is there a way to downgrade?
>
you can but this still shouldn't be occurring on either version. I've
heard of it happening to others but in ALL the other cases it's been
flaky hardware or a damaged install/rpmdb.
try running rpm -Va --nofiles --nodeps and see if it reports any
problems.
-sv
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