[clue-tech] RPM Error

[Nate Duehr]

Greg Knaddison wrote:
> On 5/6/05, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:
> 
>>Yikes, thanks for the info Michael.  It's kinda sad to see RH having
>>this large a bug in EL3.
>>
> 
> 
> The workaround isn't that bad... 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143532
> 
> Apparently running
> #rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> 
> Will fix it.  Also, it isn't a consistent bug and seems to only come
> up on the systems of people who have modified outside of the
> "standard" config.  Software (including debian) has bugs... eh.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg

There was some similar-looking corruption to RPM DB's a few years ago in 
RH 8 also... and rpm --rebuild was another method of fixing it... wonder 
if it's the same rehashed old bugs still floating around?

Nate