On Sat, 3 May 2003 14:41:57 +0100 (BST) M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2003, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > > Hello, Everyone :) > > When I attempt to rebuild my corrupted RPM database, following the > > following instructions that I got off the Red Hat 8 list: ... > > What makes you think the database is corrupted? Not all errors are the > result of corruption (in particular rpm --rebuilddb issues a harmless > db4 error even when it works correctly). Hello, Michael :) The reason I think that my database is corrupt is that when I try to run rpm -Fvh on an rpm (let's say an official Red Hat 9 update), I only get what seems to be a complete list of dependencies, which is really odd, because when I installed Red Hat 9, I chose to install all 1390+ packages. Also, I tried this experiment: I ran (as root) rpm -e on a package that I know for sure I had installed with an RPM, and also that I know IS currently installed (because I ran the application immediately before my experiment) and there was absolutely no result whatsoever. No error message, nothing. Not only that, but just to make sure, after I ran rpm -e krename with no apparent result, I tried running "krename" and it was still installed. Also, when I run rpm -qa on packages that I know Red Hat installed as RPM's, I get absolutley no response, which usually means that a package isn't installed. For example, rpm -qa kernel informs me that I have no kernel installed :) If this gives you any ideas, feel free to let me know :) Steven P. Ulrick
