hosed RPM
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Mar 15 15:19:14 UTC 2006
Mark Haney wrote:
> Okay, my very first hosed rpmdb. I tried rebuilddb, no go. I tried
> initdb /then/ rebuilddb no go. Any other ideas? Fortunately, this
> isn't a production system (yet) so I can blow it away if I need to. I
> was running up2date on the box from ssh and for some reason sshd died in
> the middle of it.
>
Using the initdb option on a working system is not a good idea. What
it does is create a new, empty RPM database. I hope you backed up
the database before trying to fix the problem.
Mikkel
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