On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:31 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Beware though, removing the __db.* files (a cache) should be sufficient.
> You do not have to run rpm --rebuilddb if the cause of the poblem was the
> corrupt cache.
> Also, do NOT attempt to run rpm --rebuilddb with a corrupt cache in place,
> because this may cause your rpmdb to get corrupted. Often people complain
> that rpm --rebuilddb did not solve their rpmdb problems,
Yep, AFAIK, --rebuilddb hasn't been required since the original RPM 4.1
(was it?) of Red Hat Linux (RHL) 8. Can you confirm that DAG?
> while in fact rpm --rebuilddb corrupted the rpmdb. And a mere removal of
> the cache (__db.*) was sufficient to solve the problem.
> You have been warned :)
I often do an "--initdb" instead. Is that wrong? I haven't done it
since RHL 9.
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