[Yum] Re: Yum Digest, Vol 7, Issue 21

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:06, Lance McLean wrote:
> Yeah and it also looks as if at least one of the RPMs that I installed via
> YUM isn't in the DB either.  Namely "rpm -qa | grep apache" gives nothin'
> but I know that it certainly _is_ installed and running and the headers
> are clearly visilbe in the YUM cache.  And, as if to taunt me, After I
> finally managed to get (an old version of) Kile installed from rpm (after
> much suffering) _that_ installation shows up in the RPM db.  I'm starting
> to think, that, for some reason my system is hosed beyond the point of
> utility of asking questions.  :-)~


I think your rpmdb is unhappy.

try this - make sure no yum nor rpm process is running - cd /var/lib/rpm
rm __db*

then run rpm --rebuilddb

then try all your commands again.

-sv