hosed RPM

[Andy Green]

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.

up2date :-O  Use yum.

Check your /var/log/messages for, eg, memory-related problems that
provoked things to blow up in the first place.

What exactly are the symptoms when you try, for example,

rpm -qa

-Andy

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