[Planetlab-users] rpm debugging reminder

[Neil Spring]

I've had some trouble recently on planetlab machines where rpm gives  
the error:

error: Failed dependencies:
	/bin/sh is needed by undns-0.1.26-1.i386
	/usr/bin/env is needed by undns-0.1.26-1.i386

  error: Failed dependencies:
	/bin/sh is needed by scriptroute-server-0.4.9-1.i386
	/bin/sh is needed by scriptroute-thttpd-0.4.9-1.i386
	/bin/sh is needed by scriptroute-0.4.9-1.i386

I don't know (or really care) why this happens, but the standard fix  
for a hanging yum:

sudo rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb

seems to take care of it.

thought I'd share.
-neil