[WBEL-users] Re: wbel-u] yum problems - correction without reboot.

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nathan Oyler wrote:

> Don't know if this has been fixed, just joined the list and reading
> through the archives, but you don't need to reboot to correct that.
>
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>
> takes care of it. Why it happens, I don't know.

Goodness -- This issue, its cause, and its solution are so old 
it has whiskers; the following URL has been the title URL of 
#rpm on freenode for over a year.  See:
    http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
for a discusson.

-- Russ Herrold