[Gllug] Recovering a RH6.2 system with a corrupt RPM database

[John Hearns]

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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