hosed RPM

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 09:54, Mark Haney wrote:
>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
>
As a previous poster said, use yum.  up2date is 100% deprecated and 
could hose the system if it did work.

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