On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:55 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 9:35 PM -0400 6/18/07, Eric wrote: > >A followup on my problem with rpm on FC6... > > > >yum, pup, and pirut all call rpm to install or remove the desired packages, > >right? > > > >So, I think that rpm is what is messing up. > > > >How do I go about uninstalling and re-installing rpm, without a working rpm > >to help me do it? > > If that is really the case, you will need to re-install the OS and all the > packages you use, as the RPM database can't be trusted either. > > In many cases a reboot, or just making sure that nothing is using RPM and > `rm /var/lib/rpm/__db00?` will fix strange RPM issues. > > Sometimes it helps to rebuild the RPM database, with `rpm --rebuilddb`. > This functionality may be going away; if that happens, you will need to > re-install the OS instead. It depends on having a good > /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. If the RPM database is bad, `rpm --verifydb` > (also maybe going away) may detect the problem, or it may not. > -- Hi, Tony, We have all used the two commands you say may be going away. Who is making that decision and why? Regards, Les H
