Bug 31043

Summary:	rpm-4.0.2-0.40.i386.rpm fails
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	sean <seandarcy>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Hardware:	i386
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Description sean 2001-03-08 04:14:07 UTC

when I rpm -Fvvh the rpm  it fails at:

......
D:running preinstall script (if any)
+  '[' -f /var/lib/rpm/Packages -a -f   /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm ']'
+  exit 1
execution of rpm-4.0.2-0.40 script failed, exit status 1
........

Both Packages and packages.rpm exist in /var/lib/rpm.

I'm using rpm-3.0.4-0.48, glibc -2.2-12 and db1-1.85. db2-2.4.14-5,
db3-3.1.17-5.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-03-08 13:38:48 UTC

You need to remove one of packages.rpm or Packages, as you have both
a db1 and a db3 database present. on your system.

The smaller of the two is probably the one that needs to be nuked. If you
are using rpm-3.0.4, you should be using packages.rpm. Try doing
	cd /var/lib/rpm
	mv Packages Packages-SAVE
and install rpm. If the output of "rpm -qa" appears satisfactory, then remove
the file Packages-SAVE.

Finally, after upgrading, you should do "rpm --rebuilddb" to convert the
database
to db3 format.

Comment 2 sean 2001-03-09 02:19:05 UTC

FWIW, I mv'd Packages, which was the smaller file.  That  didn't work. rpm
thought I had nothng installed., e.g. glibc, bash,etc.
I then mv'd packages.rpm ,and put Packages back.  That worked.

This may be because I rpm --rebuilddb in rpm-3 after I installed db3.

In any case it works now. thanks for your help.

jay