From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: system crached during package install, can no longer install, remove, manage rpm packages, via command line, gui and package applet. tried to rebuild via rpm -v --rebuilddb with out success. gui gets to reading system state then quits. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.1.1-0.1.8.x How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2x click on any rpm package to install 2. or 2x click on package manager gui appl 3. manually trying to install via cmd line Actual Results: gui status/progress bas, reading headers, reading system state then gui appl shuts down Expected Results: dialog requesting confirmation that you want to install this package Additional info: provided on demand
removing lock dbs __db* and rpm --rebuild did not fix the package db file Is there a way to regenerate this file with out reinstall ?
Give me a pointer (i.e. URL, attachments won't work) to a tarball of your database cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb-86092.tar.gz rpm and I'll try to fix.
Closing due to inactivity. If this issue still occurs with current releases, please reopen and set the release in which you've encountered the problem.