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This is really strange. First I'm using Smart. Second I had KDE problems due to subscribing to the SUSE-KDE channel, then moving back normal KDE versions. Ouch lots of problems ...
  1. 07-27-2007 #1
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    RPM troubles

    This is really strange. First I'm using Smart. Second I had KDE problems due to subscribing to the SUSE-KDE channel, then moving back normal KDE versions. Ouch lots of problems but most a fixed or worked around. Anyhow, recently when doing a smart update smart would suddenly fail. Running from the command line gives a segment fault error. Some packages I could install individually but some always give the fault. So I deleted the downloaded RPM's and the smart cache for good measure re downloaded but still get the fault. So I tried installing the RPM's via the RPM command, oops same error. So it is not a smart problem. I suspect that one of the many many required RPM lib's is broken or wrong version or something.

    Now how to fix???

    Uninstalling/reinstalling is out since how to reinstall without RPM??

    Any takers???

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  2. 07-28-2007 #2
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    had you tried rebuilding rpm database

    Code:
     sudo rpm --rebuilddb
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    I hadn't thought of that.

    Ok that worked. Rebuilt the DB. Then Smart throw a bunch of errors instead of crashing. Ran fix all. This brought the errors down to a handful all about paython. reinstalled python and all is fixed I hope
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