On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:06, Lance McLean wrote: > Yeah and it also looks as if at least one of the RPMs that I installed via > YUM isn't in the DB either. Namely "rpm -qa | grep apache" gives nothin' > but I know that it certainly _is_ installed and running and the headers > are clearly visilbe in the YUM cache. And, as if to taunt me, After I > finally managed to get (an old version of) Kile installed from rpm (after > much suffering) _that_ installation shows up in the RPM db. I'm starting > to think, that, for some reason my system is hosed beyond the point of > utility of asking questions. :-)~ I think your rpmdb is unhappy. try this - make sure no yum nor rpm process is running - cd /var/lib/rpm rm __db* then run rpm --rebuilddb then try all your commands again. -sv
