20 Aug
2005
20 Aug
'05
3:03 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:14 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
Oh.. I forgot to mention that my rpm database on the server seems to be corrupted and it refuses to install the current kernel and updates. (one reason I want to upgrade from cd)
Execute: # rm /var/lib/rpm __db.00? # rpm --initdb
And optionally (as of RHL9+/RHEL3+) # rpm --rebuilddb
BTW, Berkeley Sleepycat DB (which RPM uses) has a tendency to do that from time-to-time. It was worse early on when RPM 4.0 first came out (circa Red Hat Linux 8), but I rarely see it now days.
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