Re: [Sheflug] Problems with RPM Redhat 8.0

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0000, Nicola Richmond wrote:
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> I've tried this but it doesn't seem to make any difference. 

Sounds serious :( Is http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ any help?

> I am also having problems with up2date. This just hangs and I have to
> kill it. May be the two problems are related.

Anything that does anything related to software installation on your system
requires a functioning rpm subsystem. If that's not working, nothing above
it will do. Stick to playing with the command line rpm until you get
that working, the gui stuff might not fail as gracefully and could cause
more problems.

Cheers,

Alex.

PS. You might want to backup your RPM database right now ;)
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