[NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat 9 RPM DB seems to be hosed - rebuild? How??

[Cameron, Thomas]

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> Behalf Of clayramsey1 at comcast.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:04 PM
> To: davea at ingraftedsoftware.com; NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat 9 RPM DB seems to be hosed - rebuild?
> How??
> 
> 
> Hey all - I just ran up2date on my RH9 laptop and was told 
> that the RPMDB has fatal region errors detected and that I 
> need to run database recovery.
> 
> So, I run rpm --rebuilddb and I get the same fatal region 
> error message and a furhter error that I cannot open the 
> packages index.
> 
> So.... what do I do?

Make sure you're root.

unset LANG
rpm --rebuilddb

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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
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