rpm -qa without results

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:40:14 -0400 (EDT), vicki at thepenguin.org wrote:

> > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:09 -0400, Antonio Sebastián Sallés M. wrote:
> >> 2008/4/21, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>:
> >> > On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 21:11 -0400, David C. Chipman wrote:
> >> > What pessamistic advice. Try this:
> >> >  rm  /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> >> >  rpm --rebuilddb
> >> >
> >>
> >> root at tesis:/var/lib/rpm# ls -las
> >> total 492
> >>   4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 2008-04-19 22:23 .
> >>   4 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root    4096 2008-04-19 22:23 ..
> >>   8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   12288 2008-04-19 22:21 Basenames
> >>   8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   12288 2008-04-19 22:21 Conflictname
> >>  12 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   24576 2008-04-19 22:23 __db.001
> >> 100 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1318912 2008-04-19 22:23 __db.002
> >> 324 -rw-r--r--  1 root root  450560 2008-04-19 22:23 __db.003
> >>   8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   12288 2008-04-12 00:52 Name
> >>   8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   12288 2008-04-12 00:52 Packages
> >>   8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   12288 2008-04-12 00:52 Providename
> >>   8 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   12288 2008-04-19 22:21 Pubkeys
> >> root at tesis:/var/lib/rpm# rm __db.00*
> >> root at tesis:/var/lib/rpm# rpm --rebuilddb
> >> root at tesis:/var/lib/rpm# rpm -qa
> >> root at tesis:/var/lib/rpm#
> >>
> >>
> 
> Strange, on my system all of the files in this directory besides the db
> files are owned by rpm with a group of rpm. I'd bet that is your problem.

Look at the size of the files! Ownership is not the problem. Around April
19th, the database was deleted and initialised. It's empty now.

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