From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) Description of problem: I have run the db_dump | db_load to rebuild the Packages file, followed by the rpm --rebuilddb option It has not helped. I can sucessfully run rpm -qa. I cannot upgrade rpm using the install on the original cd because the upgrade reports a partition size problem. The disk was initially partioned by Redhat 7.1. I cannot re-install the entire system, becuase it is my dsl gateway machine. The box is an ibm pentium 133. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date, or try to install anything using rpm 2. I get the error 3. Actual Results: I get an error indicating a problem with the database. I will attach a copy of the messages I get. Expected Results: Either up2date, or rpm should have allowed the database to be updated Additional info:
Created attachment 76084 [details] the messages I get when I try to run up2date
what is the result of: rpm -q redhat-release and: rpm -q --whatprovides "redhat-release"? That message basically indicates that up2date is attempting to determine what release you are running by looking for the package that provides "redhat-release" and checking it's version number. If that package isn't installed, or it can't be read, that is the error message you will get.
Someone already answered with the same response. I followed the suggestions and the machine is now working fine. You can mark the problem as 'resolved'. Alan Polinsky