rpm database corrupted, how to recover?
Torrey Hoffman
thoffman at arnor.net
Wed Nov 12 23:37:36 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:23, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2003, Torrey Hoffman <thoffman at arnor.net> wrote:
>
> > While installing some rpms from FreshRPMs.net on my system, rpm
> > segfaulted. It seems to have corrupted the database in the process, and
> > now all rpm commands hang.
>
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
Thanks very much, that worked. Can I suggest that rpm --rebuilddb be
changed to do that automatically, so it doesn't just hang in this
situation?
Thanks again for the quick response.
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Torrey Hoffman <thoffman at arnor.net>
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