Tried to run an online update, but every patch comes up with RPM database error. What would caulse this? Art
On Thursday 03 February 2005 06:45, Art Fore wrote:
Tried to run an online update, but every patch comes up with RPM database error. What would caulse this? Just a thought, but the rpm database may be corrupted.
If you open up a console, and su to root, then you can try: rpm --rebuilddb Which will attempt to rebuild the RPM database. Cheers, Jon
On 03.02.05,07:20, Jon Jeffels wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2005 06:45, Art Fore wrote:
Tried to run an online update, but every patch comes up with RPM database error. What would caulse this? Just a thought, but the rpm database may be corrupted.
If you open up a console, and su to root, then you can try: rpm --rebuilddb
Which will attempt to rebuild the RPM database.
You can also check with 'ps ax' if some other process is holding on to the
rpm db, and kill it. Then run 'rpm --rebuild'.
- Jostein
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