When rebuilddb fails...

[Duane Morin]

Ok, I'm stuck.  While trying to use red-carpet to get my ximian gnome up
to date, I've corrupted my rpm database.  I tried --rebuilddb as
requested, but it still reports the same error.  As do commands like -qa,
-Va, and so on.  They all report:

error: free list corrupt (1819464)- please run
        "rpm --rebuilddb"
More information is available from http://www.rpm.org or the
rpm-list at redhat.com mailing list
if "rpm --rebuilddb" fails to correct the problem.


I've written redhat but gotten no response, posted to linux.redhat.rpm and
gotten silence as well.  I asked ximian, I don't know if they'll think
it's anything to do with them at all.

What should I do?  My machine seems to be running fine, but if I try to do
anything rpm related (such as even bringing up xrpm or red-carpet) it
fails out.

Duane


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