hosed RPM

[Mark Haney]

Andy Green wrote:
> 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
>
>   
rpm -qa gives me a package list like it should.  This is what I get when 
I up2date:

RPM error.  The message was:
Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
If you get this error, try running

                rpm --rebuilddb



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Mark Haney
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