On Sunday 01 April 2007, Kam Leo wrote: >On 4/1/07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht > ><wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200704@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > I've now cleaned out teh /var/lib/rpm/__db* files and ran rebuilddb >> > twice now, but starting smart --gui, and asking it to update me get >> > this in the log window: >> >> Does "yum update" work correctly? If it also objects, it would point >> to some rpm db problem. >> >> There seems to be a bug that leaves the rpm db scrambled. It happened >> a year ago and a month ago. The first time the db was permanently >> scrambled and I just waited till FC6 came out to reinstall from >> scratch. The second time rebuilddb seemed to fix everything up well >> enough to allow "yum update" to work. I always did wonder if I was >> missing something. Oh well, come f7 I'll reinstall from scratch again >> and that problem will be swept under the rug. >> >> -wolfgang >> -- >> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ > >Gene, > >On my system "rpm -q python" produced two installed versions. Also two >installed versions of python-devel were found. Try removing the older >versions using rpm. Worth checking, but no, just one: root@coyote bad-kernel]# rpm -q python python-2.4.4-1.fc6 Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain
