On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:47AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > I went to tty2 and did rpm --rebuilddb, but that apparently accomplished > nothing other than this output: > > error: failed to replace old database with new database! > error: replace files in /var/lib/rom with files from > /var/lib/rpmrebuildb.1206 to recovererror: failed to remove directory > /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.1206: Directory not empty That is quite far from "nothing". In /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.<something> you have all new database files and this replacement where you got an error is a penultimate step in a --rebuilddb process. Sounds like a new database was already made. A removal of build directory failed because files from there were not moved to their targets. Hence the questions are: - are you out of a disk space? - did you remove /var/lib/rpm/_* lock files before trying rebuild? - did something put funky attributes on files in /var/log/rpm? - is your file system which holds /var/lib/rpm healthy? 'man lsattr' describes how to list attributes and 'man chattr' explains their meanings but run fsck first. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
