Help rebuilding Redhat 9 rpm database

[Keith Mastin]

>   My other machine, a 4-year-old Dell of mine, runs OK except that the
> harddrive has recently begun showing more bad blocks than than a Toronto
> Argonauts highlight reel.  So I went and bought a new drive.  I RTFM'd
> and set the jumper to Master and swapped drives.  Then I thought I'd try
> putting Redhat 9 on the system while I was at it.  The install went OK,
> and the check for bad blocks didn't find anything.  I decided to remove
> Postfix as the mail agent and replace it with ssmtp.  Then rpm whined
> about how mutt depended on Postfix.  I did a --nodeps removal of
> Postfix, and rpm froze.  I popped open another tty and killed rpm.
>
>   Then I tried rebuilding the rpm database from scratch.  Two hours ago,
> I did "rpm -vv --initdb".  The response on the screen was...
>
> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
>
>   Nothing further since then.  Is this a long process on a 450 mhz
> machine, or are things so badly hosed that I should re-install ?

You did rpm --rebuilddb, right? Might be hosed. If you don't have a big
investment in the machine already, might be a good time to reinstall.

IIRC ssmtp and postfix can live on a system together. Just do postfix stop
and start ssmtp.

-- 
Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070


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