On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:03:18 +0200, Mathias Nicolajsen Kjærgaard wrote: > My system is FC2 with RPM version 4.3.1 (fully updated). > After a little investigation I found out that this error was caused by a > corrupt rpm-database. To correct this I ran "rpm --rebuilddb". > Now the rpm command does not give any errors, but unfortunately the > rpm-database is now empty, e.g.: > Now my questions are: > - How could this happen in the first place - a bug in RPM? > - Is there any way that I can recover the information I have lost? If you still have a good copy of /var/log/rpmpkgs, you could recreate the database with a bit of scripting work and rpm options --justdb --noscripts --notriggers. You might even find existing scripts that do it, since the topic has come up before on some lists. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 loadavg: 1.00 1.00 0.83
