Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
/bin/rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
rpm --initdb
rpm --rebuilddb
chown rpm:rpm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
Is your fedora-release package still OK?
$ rpm -qi fedora-release
[root@arbol ~]# rpm -qi fedora-release
package fedora-release is not installed
How do I recreate that?
# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
Is there any other data I need to initialize
the database with?
BTW. "yum -C list" does show 5736 lines of packages, 661 marked as
installed. The "rpm --rebuild" did pick up the information from the
real packages.
How many packages does this list:
$ rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"
You could cross-reference that with your yum output and check for
discrepancies.
You could then reinstall (possibly using rpm's --justdb option as
suggested earlier in this thread) any missing packages.
[root@arbol ~]# yum -C list
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
ImageMagick.i386 6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3 installed
ImageMagick.x86_64 6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3 installed
MAKEDEV.x86_64 3.21-3 installed
NetworkManager-glib.x86_64 0.6.3-1.fc5 installed
ORBit2.x86_64 2.14.0-1 installed
PyXML.x86_64 0.8.4-3.2.2 installed
Just For the record, and the most disconcerting part, was that nothing
out of the ordinary happened just before the yum db trashed itself. I
had just finined a "yum update" "shutdown -r now" and after they
machine rebooted I tried to do a "yum list > yum-list.txt" so I would
have a snapshot of what I had installed and what was available.
Does the db use a server that might have been updating the db file
when I rebooted?
Not that I can think of. Could conceivably be a hardware issue.
Paul.
