[rhn-users] RPM doesn't work!

Wed Sep 8 17:41:24 UTC 2004

Thanks, you just solved one of the many problems I have been having with
this new RedHat.

Dr. Philippe B. Laval
Associate Professeur of Mathematics
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144

Office Phone: (770) 499-3325
Office room: SC 523
e-mail: plaval at kennesaw.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of James P
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 1:27 PM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RPM doesn't work!

Later versions of RPM are kind of flaky. I have had this problem in 
the past and have always been abel to fix it by rebuilding the rpm 
database. Do this:

cd /var/lib/rpm
mv __db* ..
rpmdb --rebuilddb

It will take a few minutes to recreate the __db* files. Should work 
after that.

If something goes wrong, you can restore by moving the __db* files 
back to their original locations. Otherwise, you can remove them 
after the rebuild.

Mureika, Jonas wrote:
> I just received my brand new Dell Precision 470 workstation with RH WS
3.0 installed -- and RPM doesn't work either from the command line or
the GUI package install program.  The process simply hangs and I can't
even Ctrl-C it (have to use kill -9!).
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem, or can someone offer a solution?
It's very frustrating, as I feel that I may have received a bad OS
install.  Thanks.
> 
> --JRM
> 
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