problem with rpm

jza · 01-01-2004, 04:44 PM

I was trying to install the kernel-smp package (after installing the kernel and kernel-src packages and booting to the new kernel) and after it reached 100%, the shell window just froze. I then tried doing rpm -qa and it froze again. Any ideas what went wrong here?

tia

blueser · 01-04-2004, 10:37 AM

Your RPM DB could be corrupted (this can happen specially if you interrupt ongoing rpm operations).

Check if there are __db* files on /var/lib/rpm; if you find them, these are lock files and mean that some rpm operation aborted. Assuming there are no rpm operations going on, it is safe to do this (as root):

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb -vv

(rebuilddb usually takes a while)

If for any reason DB rebuild fails, you might have a more 'delicate' probl, and maybe these can help you:

http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=106459

HTH