[vox-tech] Segmentation Fault with RPM --rebuilddb

[Richard S. Crawford]

I did try it.  No luck. *grumble*


At 11:24 AM 1/3/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry to re-note this, but did you try the suggestion made by <i>Charles
>Polisher</i> (One of the things I mentioned was a possible file system
>problem with files, permissions, etc. A problem with these files could be
>it. If this suggestion clobbers the old db files which will be created
>again anyway, this may be the solution you were looking for.)
>
>Instead of "rm" you may want to consider just "mv" the files to /tmp or
>another location so as to no destroy them. Then you could mv them back and
>not lose data.
>
>(
>On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > Trying to get my system ready for upgrading to RH8, I decided to run rpm
> > --rebuilddb on my system.  I got "Segmentation fault".
> >
> > What does this mean?  How can I repair the fault?
> >
> > --
> > Slainte,
> > Richard S. Crawford
> >
>Try:  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>That ought to do the trick.
>
>)
>
>Original post:
>http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2003-01/msg00017.html
>
>-ME
>
>
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