On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:19:09PM -0600, Matthew S. Hallacy (poptix at techmonkeys.org) wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:40:28AM -0500, Amy Tanner wrote: > > Anyone ever see this error when removing a package? > > > > error: cannot open Sigmd5 index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > > error: cannot open Filemd5s index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > > > > I saw it for the first time on a box today when doing an apt-get remove. > > I suspect I'd get the same result doing an rpm -e. Note, the package > > did get removed despite the error. > > That's not good, it means that /var/lib/rpm is missing the above mentioned > files. If there's not a reason for something like this to have happened > (fsck, manual deletion..) you might check and see if the system has been > broken into. Actually this happened on a few other boxes today and only when I did an apt-get remove galeon. To test, I then did an apt-get install galeon and then an apt-get remove galeon again and did not get the error. And subsequent installs of packages did not result in any errors. If those files really didn't exist, wouldn't I get those errors every time I installed or removed a package? Do you know where these files live so I can look for them? > Sigmd5 stores the MD5 signatures for packages, and Filemd5s stores the > MD5's for files, this is use to verify if a package has been changed > or not. -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 524 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020516/2c56cbab/attachment.pgp