Re: smart package manager upchucking

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 01 April 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/1/07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
>
>  wrote:
> > Gene Heskett  writes:
> > > I've now cleaned out teh /var/lib/rpm/__db* files and ran rebuilddb
> > > twice now, but starting smart --gui, and asking it to update me get
> > > this in the log window:
> >
> > Does "yum update" work correctly?  If it also objects, it would point
> > to some rpm db problem.
> >
> > There seems to be a bug that leaves the rpm db scrambled.  It happened
> > a year ago and a month ago.  The first time the db was permanently
> > scrambled and I just waited till FC6 came out to reinstall from
> > scratch.  The second time rebuilddb seemed to fix everything up well
> > enough to allow "yum update" to work.  I always did wonder if I was
> > missing something.  Oh well, come f7 I'll reinstall from scratch again
> > and that problem will be swept under the rug.
> > -wolfgang
> >
> > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
>
> Gene,
>
> On my system "rpm -q python" produced two installed versions. Also two
> installed versions of python-devel were found. Try removing the older
> versions using rpm.

Worth checking, but no, just one:
root@coyote bad-kernel]# rpm -q python
python-2.4.4-1.fc6

Thanks.