Re: "I can run yum, but rpm -qv yum says it's not installed!!!!
I think it's time for a complete baremetal reinstall."
    Maybe you deleted something important from /var/lib/rpm/.  If it was 
your mistake, and not a bad disk or something done by a malicious 
outsider, it could help to do 'rpm --rebuilddb' and/or 'rpm --initdb'.

Steven Yellin

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Bill Maidment wrote:

> -----Original message-----
> From:	Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent:	Wed 14-03-2012 00:39
> Subject:	Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] wine 1.4 is out
> To:	Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>;
> CC:	[log in to unmask];
>> On 03/12/2012 08:02 PM, Bill Maidment wrote:
>>> -----Original message-----
>
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> On the distribution server the i686 package is a hard link within the
>> x86_64 tree.
>>
>> $ ls -li 6.2/i386/os/Packages/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-13.el6.i686.rpm
>> 6.2/x86_64/os/Packages/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-13.el6.i686.rpm
>> 1501786955 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 137720 Dec 13 08:56
>> 6.2/i386/os/Packages/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-13.el6.i686.rpm
>> 1501786955 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 137720 Dec 13 08:56
>> 6.2/x86_64/os/Packages/cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-13.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>>
>> You may want to remove and re-add the SL signing key.  It seems
>> something is wonky with your rpm gpg keyring.  There are instructions on
>> this within the rpm man page.
>>
>> Pat
>
> Thanks Pat.
> I've deleted and reimported the gpg keys, but something very scary has happened to this machine.
> I can run yum, but rpm -qv yum says it's not installed!!!!
> I think it's time for a complete baremetal reinstall.
>
> Cheers
> Bill Maidment
> IT Consultant to Elgas Ltd
> Phone: 02 4294 3649
>