SOLVED: Re: Smart Package Manager: Configuration in readonly mode

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 22:29 -0800, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-18-02 at 18:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > rpm still in process?
> 
> No.
> 
> > rm -fr /var/lib/__db*
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my bad - s/h/b
rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__db*
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> There's nothing by that name in /var/lib. There were a few
> in /var/lib/rpm - I have deleted them.
> 
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> That did it! Thanks!
> 
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those 2 steps will generally fix rpm db from processes that went bad,
whether by rpm itself, yum, apt or smart

of course, any rpm processes still going must be stopped first

Craig