database mess up

[Patrick Dupre]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rick Stevens wrote:

> 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!
No, it is the problem.

The packages are installed, but their not see by rpm.

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