[1838] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RPM cannot open packages.rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Michielsen)
Wed Oct 30 12:33:49 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:28:27 +0100 (MET)
From: Julien Michielsen <jmichielsen@kennis.hobby.nl>
To: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
cc: RedHat Server <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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>> 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 two slashes in front
>> of it. And, eh, I did upgrade to rpm-2.2.2-1 . Did I corrupt my
>> rpm-database?
>were you root while trying to install the rpm?
Although I don't exactly remember, I think I was. Looking to the file,
it is owned by and also group root. Just like /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm.
Queries like rpm -q rpm-name still give the good answer, so I still hope
my rpm-base is still in order.
Anyone else an idea how I can start again? At the moment I cannot install
any package because the rpm-program cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
Thanks
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Julien Michielsen +31-10-4765.771
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