rpm database corruption (again)

[Neal Becker]

On Thursday 08 March 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> > On Monday 05 March 2007, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> >> Neal Becker wrote:
> >>> I'd almost given up on smart.  Running on fedora fc6.  I'd do
> >>> smart upgrade --update
> >>>
> >>> And almost daily I'd have a broken rpm database.  Fixing it is
> >>> painful.
>
> "... broken ... painful"
>
> Without describing "broken" in more detail, it's impossible to attempt
> to diagnose your problem.
>
> 73 de Jeff

smart update hangs at ~50% loading cache.  rm /var/lib/rpm/__*, then 
rpm --rebuilddb fixes it.