On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:40:14 -0400 (EDT), vicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:09 -0400, Antonio Sebastián Sallés M. wrote: > >> 2008/4/21, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 21:11 -0400, David C. Chipman wrote: > >> > What pessamistic advice. Try this: > >> > rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.* > >> > rpm --rebuilddb > >> > > >> > >> root@tesis:/var/lib/rpm# ls -las > >> total 492 > >> 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-19 22:23 . > >> 4 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2008-04-19 22:23 .. > >> 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2008-04-19 22:21 Basenames > >> 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2008-04-19 22:21 Conflictname > >> 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 2008-04-19 22:23 __db.001 > >> 100 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 2008-04-19 22:23 __db.002 > >> 324 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450560 2008-04-19 22:23 __db.003 > >> 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2008-04-12 00:52 Name > >> 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2008-04-12 00:52 Packages > >> 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2008-04-12 00:52 Providename > >> 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2008-04-19 22:21 Pubkeys > >> root@tesis:/var/lib/rpm# rm __db.00* > >> root@tesis:/var/lib/rpm# rpm --rebuilddb > >> root@tesis:/var/lib/rpm# rpm -qa > >> root@tesis:/var/lib/rpm# > >> > >> > > Strange, on my system all of the files in this directory besides the db > files are owned by rpm with a group of rpm. I'd bet that is your problem. Look at the size of the files! Ownership is not the problem. Around April 19th, the database was deleted and initialised. It's empty now. -- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 loadavg: 4.35 4.39 3.77 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list