Re: Yum has screwed up my system :-(

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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Johan Henes wrote:
> Thanks !
> 
> Looks like this is not so easy ...
> 
> when running rpm --rebuilddb I get :
> 
> [root@notes root]# rpm --rebuilddb
> Illegal instruction

did you try prepending LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1?

Illegal instruction hints to an unsupported CPU. What system is this
running on?

> > 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 :(

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Johan Henes wrote:
> Hmm ..
> Is there any way for me to solve this ??

What's the size of

du -s /var/lib/rpm

If it is closer to 100MB than to 10MB then yes, and your issues may be
nptl not working on your platform.

Make sure you don't have hardware eating your database.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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