On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:14:50PM +0000, Scott W Fischer wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2001 21:03, you wrote: > > Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner at real-time.com): > > > Oh, no. > > > > > > # rpm --rebuilddb > > > Segmentation fault > > > > > > Web did not turn up much. > > > > > > Somehow rpm's db got corrupted. I cannot install anything without > > > rpm crashing > > > > > > :-( > > If you do ever figure this out, please post the solution. I've seen > the same happen on Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2, Redhat 6.2 and 7.1 and SuSE > (7.1 I think) and have not found a solution. > > -swf > > -- > Scott Fischer - scott.w.fischer at att.net > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list My system did the same thing the other day, running Redhat 7.1. I tried rebuilding the db and a lot of other things. Finally, I downloaded the rpm tarball from ftp.rpm.org and unpacked it. It did *something* 'cause rpm started to work again. The file was called rpm-4.0.2.i386.tar.gz and I found it in the /pub/rpm/dist/4.0.x directory. -- Jim Kaufman mailto:jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us home: 952-934-4851 Eden Prairie, MN 55346 fax: 952-937-9832 --- Frisbeetarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.