My final script for anyone who might need it is: #!/bin/bash unset LANG export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -qa | wc --lines rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? rpm --define '__dbi_rebuild nofsync !log !txn !cdb !thread' --rebuilddb unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL rpm -qa | wc --lines rpm --rebuilddb rpm -qa | wc --lines Note: Watch out for the ! characters. John. Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:50 +1000, John Newbigin wrote: > >>In answer to my own question, this is what I have done which appears to >>fix the problem: >> >>1. Edit /usr/lib/rpm/macros and change the line >>%__dbi_rebuild nofsync !log !txn !cdb >>to >>%__dbi_rebuild nofsync !log !txn !cdb !thread >>2. export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 >>3. rpm --rebuilddb >>4. unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL >>5. Edit /usr/lib/rpm/macros back to the original >>6. rpm --rebuilddb >> >>So far this fixes the problems I have been having. I assume it is >>possible to override the macro setting on the rpm command line so no >>editing is required and a simple script can be run on all my machines. >> > > I use the --define switch to define rpm variables with rpmbuild ... > don't know if it will work with RPM too, but it might. Here is an > example: > > --define "_build i386-redhat-linux-gnu" > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin