RPM stopped working

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Thu May 26 21:15:58 UTC 2005


Am Do, den 26.05.2005 schrieb Remco Poelstra um 23:06:

> Today RPM 'stopped' working. It seems it does everything (like searching 
> etc), except installing (and testing) packages. It spits out a nice line 
> to indicate that the package isn't signed, but after that nothing 
> happens. No resource usage. No pretty 'Preparing..." line. Nothing. I've 
> no clue on what might be wrong.
> I hope someone can help,
> My system is an up to date (as of yesterday) FC3.

> Remco Poelstra

a) kill all existing rpm processes
b) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?
c) rpm --rebuilddb

This triple step might repair your system.

Alexander


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