I found this to be a common remedy for Red Hat.  Suse and Mandrake
don't seem to corrupt their RPM database as much.  Weird.

George


Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> If I'm installing an RPM package, then I run RPM as root.  If I'm
> just querying the installed packages then I don't need to be root.
> I actually fixed the problem last night by running this command:
> rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> Quoting David Mandala <David.Mandala@DevelopOnline.com>:
> 
> > Are you running RPM as root?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Alexander [mailto:m@netpro.to]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:13 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: RPM weirdness...
> >
> >
> > RPM has started doing funky things lately and I'm not sure why...
> > When I do something like:
> >
> > rpm -qa|grep foo
> >
> > It just hangs.
> > And when I try to install a new package, I get fun messages like this:
> >
> > error: db3 error(-30998) from db->close: DB_INCOMPLETE: Cache flush
> > was
> > unable to complete
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what's going on?
> >
> > The last I touched RPM was when I upgraded to KDE 2.2
> > Thanks,
> > ~M
> >
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