[Gllug] Recovering a RH6.2 system with a corrupt RPM database
John Hearns
John.Hearns at cern.ch
Wed Dec 4 10:03:20 UTC 2002
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, John Hearns wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2002, John Winters wrote:
>
> > One of my customers has a RH 6.2 system on which the RPM database has
> > become corrupted. Each time any reference to the ppp package is
> > made using the rpm tool, the tool crashes with a segmentation fault.
> >
> The man page suggests rpm --initdb
Whoops. On a RH 7.3 system,
erasing Packages, then rpm --initdb followed by rpm --rebuilddb did not do
good things.
Packages file left empty (rpm version 4 on RH 7.3)
I guess I support Xander's excellent suggestion of getting the
files from a clean system.
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