Saurabh Barve wrote:
>> Hi, >> >> I am running FC2. I accidentally deleted the entire contents of my >> /var/lib/ directory. As a result, rpm -qa shows up nothing. Also, the
>>>>Saurabh,
>>>> You might be able to get a pkg list from /var/log/yum.log or
>>>>/var/log/rpmpkgs and then update/reinstall these packages. I'm not >>>>sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try.
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Dale
Hi,
I copied over the entire /var/lib directory from another machine that was configured like this machine. I then did 'rpm --rebuilddb'. I then got a whole list of packages with 'rpm -qa'. I was also able to get my partitions exported using nfs. However, I don't know if the rpm database has been restored to its original self. I did a diff between /var/lib/rpm/Packages and /var/log/yum.log, and they differ. Am I right in comparing the two?
I also ran 'up2date --update' and 'yum update' just in case, and while up2date didn't update anything, yum returned one update, which I thought normal (it updated ethereal).
Is there anything else I need to do to bring the system back in its original condition? Maybe reboot it?
Thanks for all the help so far.
Saurabh.
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