[lug] rpm database corruption

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke ljp
> If that doesn't help, there's always the --force --nodeps arguments.

Hmmm.  Something else is amiss here.  This is what I get from that:

mjhammel(tty0)$ rpm -i --force --nodeps IBMJava2-JRE-1.3-9.0.i386.rpm
memory alloc (3497133019 bytes) returned NULL.

My rpm system (binary or databases) are mucked up somehow.  I get this
memory alloc problem no matter how I try to run rpm.  And I get a zero
length Depends.idx in /var/lib/rpm afterwards.  

Any other ideas?

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