On 4/1/07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200704(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> writes:
> I've now cleaned out teh /var/lib/rpm/__db* files and ran rebuilddb twice
> now, but starting smart --gui, and asking it to update me get this in the
> log window:
Does "yum update" work correctly? If it also objects, it would point
to some rpm db problem.
There seems to be a bug that leaves the rpm db scrambled. It happened
a year ago and a month ago. The first time the db was permanently
scrambled and I just waited till FC6 came out to reinstall from
scratch. The second time rebuilddb seemed to fix everything up well
enough to allow "yum update" to work. I always did wonder if I was
missing something. Oh well, come f7 I'll reinstall from scratch again
and that problem will be swept under the rug.
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
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Gene,
On my system "rpm -q python" produced two installed versions. Also two
installed versions of python-devel were found. Try removing the older
versions using rpm.