Re: smart package manager upchucking

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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.



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