Jason Dixon wrote:
Sadly this was our backup server , and we never made a backup of it ... just from the other machines... I found out that I've lost the index files for the amanda backups I had , so I can simply reinstall my server now...
Just restore from your backups, then rpm --rebuilddb.
The odd thing: it was installed on a set of raid 1 partitions... /boot and / were different on each disk ( /boot had the old 2149 kernel on one disk and the other had only 2166 and 2174 kernels..) I wish I knew why this difference , as raid 1 is supposed to be mirroring...
It sounds like the mirror got broken at some point, perhaps when a disk error was detected (yielding seven kernel versions of bad luck).
If you don't watch the logs closely, it can be disturbingly easy to miss RAID-related messages for things like 'I failed this drive today'.
