Rogue package

[Richard England]

Richard England wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>
>>    I have an FC10 system that has kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i586 
>> installed, yet yum nor rpm seem to think it is.  It's in grub.conf, 
>> there are files in /usr/src/kernels/ pertaining to it ... but I can't 
>> remove it.
>>
>>    The system is running kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 so I 
>> don't need the other one.  How do I go about instructing yum that 
>> it's installed and to remove it, if it tells me the package isn't 
>> installed?
>>
> How was the kernel installed?  The rpm database probably does not know 
> about the kernel if rpm (or yum) was not used to install it.
>
> ~~~R
>
If rpm was used to install, I wonder if rebuilding the rpm database 
might help?


rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
#db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
#rpm --rebuilddb

Some one else might be along with more insight....

~~R

P.S. Note that __db* has two underscores...