The first thing I would do would be to look in /var/lib/rpm and see if there is any files like __db.001 __db.002 __db.003 I would then, back that whole directory up cp -r /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.backup delete those files rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and see if that fixes the problem. Troy
Scot Mc Pherson wrote:
rpm -qa | grep some_package
And, it seems that I have a lot of them installed. And I tried
killall -9 rpm
Emmanuel Papirakis
See if an ordianry user can still do $ rpm -qa
On my system, when I have messed up my rpm db (which you should backup after each successful transaction i.e. tar jcf rpm-backup-${DATE}.tar.bz2 /var/lib/
rpm), sometimes only the root user can't use rpm, but the ordianry user can't. In this case a simple rpm --rebuilddb should fix it. I can't see rpm -qa breaking a db, perhaps something else broke it before you performed the $ killall -9 rpm.
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