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. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman