[issue197] Smart Fails on Segmentation Faults

[Basil Chupin]

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> What does all this mean? What needs to be done to get smart to work 
>> again for me?
> 
> This is probably being caused by the recent changes in the RPM
> database you've being making.

I am sorry, but what changes in the RPM database have I been making?

Do you mean that I have installed some RPMs manually and not via smart 
because smart kept aborting and then ran SuSEconfig afterwards to keep 
the database up-to-date?

(All this is getting quite confusing :-) .)


   Smart caches information from the
> database based on the mtime of the Packages file (perhaps there
> is a most reliable way to do it) and expects it to be unchanged
> unless the mtime has changed as well.
> 
> Please try to remove your cache with "rm /var/lib/smart/cache".


In desperation and not knowing what I was doing, I actually took the 
plunge day before yesterday and deleted the cache hoping that it would 
fix my problem. It didn't.

I saw Stuart's message yesterday and did what he did which was-

rpm --initdb  and

rpm --rebuilddb

but this only produced another error (which I posted in full in an 
earlier message).

At this point I just took a chance and executed 'SuSEconfig' - and this 
fixed the problem with smart now back to normal.

Cheers.


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