rpm -Rebuilddb problems

[Naheem Zaffar]

No bothers; I have reinstalled FC2. Will soon yum upto FC3 Test but
probably wait until Test 2 as yum may struggle with the curent deps.

Thanks again!

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:05:21 -0500 (CDT), Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
> 
> > The plot thickens. If I remove -f i get:
> > # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.001*
> > rm: cannot lstat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.001*': No such file or directory
> 
> thats because they were deleted earlier - as per my earlier instructions.
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> 
> 
> >
> > # rpm -rebuilddb
> > rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: Permission denied
> > error: db4 error(13) from dbenv->open: Permission denied
> > error: cannot open Packages index
> 
> I'm stumped. Other experts on rpm have to answer this one (why
> --rebuilddb doesn't work)
> 
> For one - you could try the following and see if shows any errors on
> installed rpm package:
> 
> rpm -V rpm
> 
> Satsh
> 
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