On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 22:59 +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:50:46PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > > > On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Bob Tennent wrote: > > > > >I'm trying to use rpm from the 1st install CD of FC4. I'm trying to > > >re-install glibc packages that didn't get installed properly > > >leaving the > > >system without ld. I've tried the following: > > > > > > rpm -U --replacepkgs --root /mnt/sysimage glibc* > > > > > >and am getting > > > > > > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000 > > > > > >I've tried adding --dbpath /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm but rpm isn't > > >recognizing that option. What should I do? > > > > > > > Doing > > mkdir /var/lib/rpm > > probably resolves the problem. > > Shouldn't that be /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm? > > (And I presume /mnt/sysimage was mounted rw.) bind mount /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm to /var/lib/rpm outside the root. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
