rpm database foobared

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Yesterday I installed YDL 3.0 on an older iMac - it lives to serve as a  
> private yum server for my lan. Install went smooth and all is working,  
> it's doing its job.
> 
> I updated it using "yum update" but the update server kept dropping the  
> connection. I found a mirror and then did succesfully update.
> 
> Today I tried to use yum to install an update - it seems this systems  
> rpm is now broken??
> 
> rpm -qa
> ** stuff that is fine  - lots like this**
> ypserv-2.8-0.9E
> eog-2.2.0-2
> XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2.1e
> 

Did you update to a 2.6 kernel? I had similar results when I update to a
2.6 kernel without update glib too.

Geoff.

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