hosed RPM

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:23:45AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> 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.
> 
What has always worked for me is to do a:
rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
followed by a: rpm --rebuilddb
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Aaron Konstam
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