database mess up

[Rick Stevens]

Patrick Dupre wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up.
>>> rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially.
>>> The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them.
>>> How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ?
>>
>> As root:
>>
>>     # cd /var/lib/rpm
>>     # rm -f __db.* (that's two underscores before the "db" bit)
>>     # rpm --rebuilddb
> I did it.

So it's working now?  Good deal!
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