FC5 rpm database corrupt [Solved]

[Claude Jones]

On Wednesday June 14 2006 03:35, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Anything you installed using yumex whilst the SELinux policy package was
> earlier than selinux-policy-2.2.43-4.fc5 may have been installed
> incorrectly, if SELinux was in enforcing mode at the time.
>
> If you noticed lots of scriptlet issues whilst running yumex, you are
> affected. I don't know how serious the problem is because I don't know
> which scriptlets will have failed to run, and what the consequence of
> not running those scriptlets will have been. Possible symptoms will
> include duplicate packages in the rpm database, server packages
> installed without the appropriate UID being set up and hence having
> files installed as root instead of the required UID. If you think that
> you are having issues like this, I would seriously consider
> reinstalling.

OK - that's clear now. Thanks for the help - I'm monitoring things now. The 
only thing I've noticed is that I can't get Spambayes to run. That looks like 
this:

# python /usr/bin/sb_server.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sb_server.py", line 112, in ?
    from spambayes.Version import get_version_string
ImportError: cannot import name get_version_string

Could this be along the lines you're talking about? Far as I can tell, 
Spambayes just installs a bunch of python scripts in /usr/bin when it 
installs - I haven't had the time to look into it farther. I do have it 
working on my other FC5 box, at work, which has been maintained in the same 
way as this one, though with a few more experiments...
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA