[lug] rpm database corruption

[Hugh Brown]

did you try rebuilding the db, have you run it through strace

Hugh

"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?