help I installed rpm4.0.6 and now nothing works! 67

Hi all

I am now in the office and need to fix this today (or as soon as).

I think my approach to solving this problem will be as follows. I would be grateful if you could tell me if you think there is anything wrong with this - its the best way I can think of to get out of this sticky situation:

1. revert back to the previous version of RPM (because I have not yet converted the db) OR 2. continue with the new version of RPM (4.0-6x or later) OR 3. install a newer version of RH (7-8-9 or whatever).

I think my plan is to go for all 3 options in order of preference - 1 first, then 2 and finally 3 if all else fails.

Luckily I have another RH6.2 machine running the same kernel (2.2.18) with RPM version rpm-3.0.4-0.48. I am buttuming (not proven) that my broken machine had the RPM version - everything else is the same. I have created a boot disk from the working machine with kernel 2.2.18 and will use that to try and get a shell on the broken machine.

I have read all the responses and I have googled around redhat and elsewhere and I think the only problem with going back to an earlier version of RPM is that I can get seg faults due to the db version issues (https:--rhn.redhat.com-errata-RHSA-2001-016.html). However I have not upgraded the db version so I believe that I *could* escape this problem.

If however I cannot go back (because I get seg faults etc) then I will move forward to RPM 4.0-6x or even 4.0.2. I can get these versions at the following locations:

4.0.2

4.0-6x

Would you reommend a version that I should use with RH6.2? If all this fails (quite possible form my reading) then I will just give up and install a later version of RH - I have versions 7 and 8 and 9 lying around here somewhere!

Thanks again Mark