On 03 May 2003 08:52:56 -0700 Z <zleite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, I got rpm to work for root on kernel 2.5.68 by creating > /etc/rpm/macros(renaming etc/macros.specspo - what__ that anyway?) and > adding > > %__dbi_cdb create cdb mpool mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb private > > AS Jeff Johnson suggested. Otherwise no go. Hello, Z :) I did everything that you said (I put "%__dbi_cdb create cdb mpool mp_mmapsize=16Mb mp_size=1Mb private" in the file that I had just renamed "macros" (the one that was formerly named "macros.specspo")) and I rebooted. After refollowing the directions that I quoted (and you re-quoted) in a previous message, when I ran "db_verify Packages", I got the following error: db_verify: Old or incorrect DB version; extraneous errors may result db_verify: DB->verify: Packages: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed This appears to be an error message that I haven't seen yet, and it fits in perfectly with what Jeff Johnson said: "Ah, that's db-4.0.14 vs. db-4.1.25 incompatibility." Because I am running Red Hat 9, the version of db4 on my system is 4.0.14 (I had to check the installation cd's, as "rpm -qa" is completely dead. If I believed it's output, then I have no RPM's installed :) One new point of clarification: my problem is not related to a specific package, like in the bug report. Everything I've tried to run works just as well as it did before, it's just that I can't install RPM's, erase RPM's or run any RPM query's. (The statement about not being able to install RPM's needs a little clarification: If I run "rpm (-ivh, -Uvh, -Fvh)", I get a full list of dependencies (I assume this is because my RPM database is non-operational.) If I add "--nodeps", then the installation proceeds as normal. Of course, I never needed to add "--nodeps" before, and if I had done so on a regular basis, especially with official Red Hat updates, that would have been kind of stupid) I just tried a test: 1. ran "gnome-breakout" from the command line. Got "command not found", which was expected, because I hadn't reinstalled it since my last install. 2. Tried "rpm -ivh" and "rpm -Uvh" on the "gnome-breakout" RPM, and I got a list of all its dependencies. 3. Ran "rpm -Uvh --nodeps" on the "gnome-breakout" RPM and the installation proceeded as normal. 4. Ran "gnome-breakout" from the command line, with the result that I just played a game on my machine that shouldn't work, considering that the output of "rpm -Uvh" on that RPM gave me a dependency list of 25 libraries that were "missing" and 10 RPM's that were suggested to fix the dependencies! (all of which were installed when I installed Red Hat 9, and none of which have I removed since then) Well, that's all for now :) Thanks again to everyone who has given advice so far :) It looks like we are making progress :) Steven P. Ulrick
