[Mageia-dev] Strange behaviour - installed package doesn't show when doing a 'rpm -qa' search??

[Robert Fox]

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:23 +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> * Robert Fox (list at foxconsult.net) wrote:
> > [root at foxbase Download]# urpmi libXdamage1
> > Package libxdamage1-1.1.3-2.mga2.i586 is already installed
> > 
> > [root at foxbase Download]# rpm -qa | grep libXdamage1
> > [root at foxbase Download]# 
> 
> Does rpm --rebuilddb help ?
> 
> I think the rpmdb index is corrupt and --rebuilddb can repair it.
> 


[root at foxbase Download]# rpm --rebuilddb
[root at foxbase Download]# rpm -qa | grep libXdamage1
[root at foxbase Download]# urpmi libXdamage1
Package libxdamage1-1.1.3-2.mga2.i586 is already installed
[root at foxbase Download]# 


Didn't seem to help.

Thanks anyway,
Robert