On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:05:19PM +0200, Johan Henes wrote: > Hi ! > > I do not know if this is the right list for this posting, but here I go > : > > On a FC1 server, a colleague has added freshrpms and ATRPMS in addition > to the "normal" two repositories for updating Fedora. After a "yum > update" (and another yum update with the "original yum.conf after that) > the system looks totally screwed. > > ie. a rpm -q kernel gives "packet not installed".... > > I have tried to repair the rpm database with no success... > > A rpm -qa returns maybe 150 rpms.... > > It looks like i have a combination of rpms that really does not like > eachother :-) I don't think so, freshrpms & atrpms have been doing very well as a combination for the last two years. I assume that you had the infamous rpm database corruption bug: http://rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ Even though it has improved very much in latest rpm versions there are still reports of corrupted rpm databases (check the fedora lists and bugzilla.redhat.com). > Is it possible to get the system back to its "normal" state using yum > with the two original repositories, or are the CDS my only way out ??? Try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rpm --rebuilddb If that does not help, your rpm database is gone. Also try du -s /var/lib/rpm, for a full install you should get >= 100MB, including full freshrpms and atrpms ~= 120MB. For 150 packages you would get ~10MB, so if there are no more than 10-20MB you can forget resurrecting the rpm database :( -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Attachment:
pgpaQtSck7qhe.pgp
Description: PGP signature
