[WBEL-users] Problem with up2date

[Benedikt Carda]

Hello,

for me it does not seem like a broken rpm-db but rather that the mirror 
up2date chose did not yet have the newest release of the package. At 
least this happens to me with yum regularly. Solution, I'd suggest:
1) Use yum for updating (at the command prompt: "yum update")
2) Before prepare the /etc/yum.conf file in order to point to one mirror 
where you can be sure that it is up to date. For me the ESAT-mirror is 
the best, so I commented out all other mirrors.

Anyway if you want to rebuild your RPM-db, I quote Craig White:

ps aux|grep rpm

#kill all open rpm processes first

rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__db*

rpm --rebuilddb


Best Regards,
Benedikt.



Shapiro, Mark schrieb:

> I run WB-3.0 on several workstations, and yesterday and today I was 
> busy updating them using up2date. However when I ran up2date on one of 
> the workstations, it reported that the machine was fully updated. I 
> check a few of the rpms with rpm –q and found that indeed the machine 
> was running the earlier versions.
>
> I suspect that the rpm database on that machine somehow was corrupted. 
> How can I check that, and how do I repair it?
>
> Thanks greatly,
>
> Mark
>
> Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
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