Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2831 mails)

[Lucky Leavell <susemisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Carl Hartung wrote:

> On Monday 24 July 2006 12:20, Lucky Leavell wrote:
> > Is these some way to remove and rebuild the Packages file or the entire
> > rpm database?
> 
> As root, 'rpm --rebuilddb' ('man rpm' for more options) but, before doing 
> that, did you happen to see anything interesting or more informative from 
> running 'dmesg' or inspecting /var/log/messages? IMHO, it'd be nice to track 
> down and rid the system of any orphaned lock files and/or verify there aren't 
> any <gasp> filesystem problems.
> 
dmesg produces too much volume to be read; /var/log/messages has no 
entries for "rpm" or "yast".  Again, I haven't found ANY lock files in 
/var/run or /var/lib/rpm. Is there anyplace else I should look?  (Of 
course, I could do a fiind for "*.lock" ...)

Thank you,
Lucky

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