[1784] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RPM cannot open packages.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Hammer)
Wed Oct 30 07:39:42 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 06:37:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Todd Hammer <sledge@intellinet.com>
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I posted about this yesterday but didn't get a response. This is exactly
the same error I get when doing either an ftp or nfs install (tested nfs
last night... same thing) on a recently fipped disk. I haven't tried an
install to a totally free disk, yet. That was going to be my next move
(tonight) but I would rather not do that, as I want to keep my 100M WfW
for testing against Win95 over my mini-lan. If anyone has *any* ideas
about this, please do tell. I am beginning to suspect the disk...
-Thanks
Todd
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
>
> Try running "rpm --initdb". If that doesn't help, look for 0 length
> files in /var/lib/rpm and erase them. Then try the "rpm --initdb". If
> *that* doesn't help, let me know.
>
> Erik
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Julien Michielsen wrote:
>
> > Trying to install a rpm I get the message
> > "cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm"
> > I do have a /var/lib/... .rpm, but nothing with to slashes in front
> > of it. And, eh, I did upgrade to rpm-2.2.2-1 . Did I corrupt my
> > rpm-database?
> > ---
> > Julien Michielsen +31-10-4765.771
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