Re: [Exim] help with exim rpm for Red Hat 9

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Autor: Neal D. Becker
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] help with exim rpm for Red Hat 9
On Monday 15 December 2003 09:03 am, Natalya Pyalling wrote:
> Hello, All!
>
> I have a some problem regarding to installing exim rpm.
> Environment:
> 1. Red Hat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
> 2. exim-base-4.30-1_14.rh9.i386.rpm from ftp.exim.org/pub/rpms-for-exim/rh9
>
> I tested a package with option --test. Always is fine.
> When I was installing this package, something has been happened. The rpms
> have been extracted, /usr/sbin/exim-base has been present. But after this
> rpm suddenly stopped any activietyes and I have to kill it with option -9.
>
> After that all rpm command can't work.
> # rpm -q -vv exim-base
> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0

>
> What's happened? Any comments are acceptable.
>
> Many thanks, Natalya Pyalling.
> npyalling@???
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rpm is fragile. You need to rm files from /var/lib/rpm called __(whatever),
then do rpm --rebuilddb