On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:47 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
I can't. I just know JBJ often repeated the warning.
Yep, I saw it too. I had a RHL8.0 installation get seriously fubar'd as a result.
Also, cache corruption should not happen on a stable system anymore. Those bugs have been fixed. But if you do encounter this, try to reproduce, check you hardware and then contact JBJ.
I ran into it all-the-time under RHL8.0, but RHL9 seem to fixed almost everything.
I think I had maybe 2 issues with RHL9 and 1 with FC1, and I never did again. And in all cases of the RHL9/FC1 issues, those were systems that were originally RHL8 (possibly RHL7.3) and had been upgraded to RHL9/FC1 from it.
I am not sure if it has any effect on a system with an existing rpmdb. Never used it for that.
What I ran into with RHL9/FC1 was that the system expected some sort of "initial db cache." Deleting the files didn't do enough, "--rebuilddb" had the aforementioned consequences. I found RHL9 always worked fine once I did a "--initdb". It basically started building the cache anew on any new operation.