FC4 rpm not working properly---solved

[Rodrigo López Negrete de la Fuente]

I finally solved the problem. I got an answer I another forum,
somebody suggested that, since I had just upgraded from FC3 to FC4,
and since I'm using SELinux, that maybe relabeling my filesystem
should work. So in gnome I went to Desktop-->System
Settings-->Security Level. There I activated the "Relabel on next
boot" box in SELinux, rebooted... and the problems were gone.

So thanks to all who replied to this mail.
cheers,
Rodrigo

From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:27:19 -0700
Subject: Re: FC4 rpm not working properly
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Alexander Apprich wrote:
>
>> Hi Rodrigo,
>>
>> Rodrigo López Negrete wrote:
>
>
> [that he had a problem with rpm install scripts]
>
>> try the following...
>>
>> 1. (re)move /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
>> 2. rpm --rebuilddb
>
>
> Is the rm necessary? I've used rpm --rebuilddb before,
> and it seemed to do the job.

Depends on how screwed up the database files are.  For safety sake,
delete them.

>> Had the same problem after installing FC4, but I had this problem ever
>> since RH8.0 every now and then.
>
>
> Hmm. Are there known defects with rpm?

No, it's a long standing issue with dbm (which manages the database
files).  Why it hasn't been fixed yet is beyond me, but I suspect that
it's difficult to reproduce on demand.
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