hosed RPM

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Mar 15 15:23:45 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson 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.
>>
>>     
> 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
>   
Well as it is, I'm just going to blow it away.  I really wanted to fix 
it, but I just don't have the time for it unfortunately.  Thanks for the 
suggestions.



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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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