[100963] in RedHat Linux List
Re: rpm broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Mon Nov 23 23:34:22 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:34:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
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In-Reply-To: <199811240419.XAA02943@emi.net>
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>>>>> "br" == Brad Rylander <brad@emi.net> writes:
br> I recently upgraded to RH 5.1. I tried running rpm for the first time
br> since the upgrade and got this:
br> 1011 ~:$ rpm -U knews*
br> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
br> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
br> Notice the // in the path. /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm *does* exist.
br> What's up?
You either tried this when rpm was doing something else, or you did
this as a user.
Try it again as root,
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