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Re: [SLE] yast: rebuild database? what db? how?
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:52:47 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200608201452.39658.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 20 August 2006 14:46, stephan beal wrote:
> Hiya!
>
> My laptop crashed in the middle of running an online update (Suse 10.1).
> Now i can't start X11 (the X11 base package was being updated when it
> crashed), and when i try to reinstall X or do an online update (via the
> console yast) almost all packages fail with an error saying i must
> "rebuild the database". But... what database? How? i'm assuming it's an
> rpm db, but... WTF??? A useless error message. Of course, i can't paste
> in the complete output from the error because it's on my laptop
> console.
Try running, as root
rpm --rebuilddb
> Hiya!
>
> My laptop crashed in the middle of running an online update (Suse 10.1).
> Now i can't start X11 (the X11 base package was being updated when it
> crashed), and when i try to reinstall X or do an online update (via the
> console yast) almost all packages fail with an error saying i must
> "rebuild the database". But... what database? How? i'm assuming it's an
> rpm db, but... WTF??? A useless error message. Of course, i can't paste
> in the complete output from the error because it's on my laptop
> console.
Try running, as root
rpm --rebuilddb
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