-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:03:27 +0200 (SAST), Willem van der Walt<willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have two rpm questions. > 1. On redhat 9 by forcing installs etc. i got rpm to a state where it > hung. > With some difficulty i killed it. It now does not even want to do a query. > I tried rebuilding the database with rpmdb --rebuilddb. It also seemed to > hang, (I left it over night). > What should i try to fix this? Remove the locked temporary files, *then* rebuild the database for safety reasons: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* rpm -vv --rebuilddb > 2. We have a Redhat advance server. > The administrator had not up to today activated the rhn_register/up2date > setup. > When he tried, he got the errors related to the ssl Certificate that > expired. > I told him to download the new rpms and install them. > He got those and ran md5checksum on them successfuly. > When one gives any rpm command envolving these downloaded files, rpm > responds by coming > back to a prompt with no output. > eg. rpm -ihv rhn_register*rpm just comes back to a prompt without any > output. > rpm -qip rhn_register*rpm does the same. > Please help? Tell him he should get the binary rpms, NOT the *.src.rpm packages. - -- Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hsVd0iMVcrivHFQRAsuFAJsFqaG5JQqV5UgANIQ+BS2pM2Y5WgCfedSZ 1Y3nrnWgzQKSZa+W96gRR/o= =KbJ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
