up2date problem

Try deleting the db files before the rebuild. They are
located in
/var/lib/rpm called __db.001, 002 etc.

Adrian

 

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bouncesredhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bouncesredhat.com]
On Behalf Of Carl Davis
Sent: Sunday, 2 April 2006 2:12 AM
To: rhn-usersredhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] up2date problem

Yesterday the core router went down during a up2date -u
session.  The
power on the server may have also gone down.  Immediately
before that I
believe to have successfully up2date -u to update up2date
itself.  Now,
when i try to issue 

up2date -anything, I get:

up2date -u
RPM error.  The message was:
Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are
running.
If you get this error, try running

                rpm --rebuilddb


I have of course tried the rpm --rebuilddb several times and
still get
the same error.  I have tired to --force a -Uvh of the
latest up2date
which did not help either, but it did install without any
problems
(except for dependencies which seemed strange since the
version I was
trying to update seemed to be exactly the same as the
up2date version
currently on the system.

uname -a
Linux host.com 2.4.21-32.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 15 21:17:59
EDT 2005 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 6)



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