On Wednesday 15 March 2006 09:54, Mark Haney wrote: >Andy Green wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> Okay, my very first hosed rpmdb. I tried rebuilddb, no go. I >>> tried initdb /then/ rebuilddb no go. Any other ideas? >>> Fortunately, this isn't a production system (yet) so I can blow it >>> away if I need to. I was running up2date on the box from ssh and >>> for some reason sshd died in the middle of it. >> >> up2date :-O Use yum. >> >> Check your /var/log/messages for, eg, memory-related problems that >> provoked things to blow up in the first place. >> >> What exactly are the symptoms when you try, for example, >> >> rpm -qa >> >> -Andy > >rpm -qa gives me a package list like it should. This is what I get > when I up2date: > >RPM error. The message was: >Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running. >If you get this error, try running > > rpm --rebuilddb > As a previous poster said, use yum. up2date is 100% deprecated and could hose the system if it did work. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
