rpm database corrupted, how to recover?
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 22:23:19 UTC 2003
On Nov 12, 2003, Torrey Hoffman <thoffman at arnor.net> wrote:
> While installing some rpms from FreshRPMs.net on my system, rpm
> segfaulted. It seems to have corrupted the database in the process, and
> now all rpm commands hang.
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
> So I moved /var/lib/rpm/Packages to /var/lib/rpm/Packages.corrupt
Don't do this. It's what --rebuilddb would use to rebuild the
databases.
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