>OK folks, for the record & for anyone else who gets stuck on this, I >fixed the problem by booting into rescue mode from cd1, chrooted into >/mnt/sysimage and forced a reinstall of init like this: > >When in rescue mode & chrooted mount the cdrom: mount /mnt/cdrom >Use rpm to force a reinstall of init: >rpm -ivh --force /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/SysVinit-2.78-19.i386.rpm > >Exit the chroot environment & reboot. >Hope this helps someone in the future :-) > >-- >Mark Farmer >Linux System Administrator hi there mark, i'm using redhat 7.1 i tried what you have suggested under linux rescue sh-2.04# rpm -ivh --force /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/SysVinit-2.78-15.i386.rpm error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm what causes this one? Any help would be much appreciated. thanks. -jong -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
