On Nov 12, 2003, Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While installing some rpms from FreshRPMs.net on my system, rpm > segfaulted. It seems to have corrupted the database in the process, and > now all rpm commands hang. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb > So I moved /var/lib/rpm/Packages to /var/lib/rpm/Packages.corrupt Don't do this. It's what --rebuilddb would use to rebuild the databases. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
