On Thursday 20 October 2005 13:58, Matthew Saltzman wrote: Hello, > If you ran rpm --initdb (as you indicated in another post), then you > completely emptied your RPM DB. Yes, I understood that but it was too late ;-( > Do you have /var/log/rpmpkgs*? If so, you could try the following: Yes, I have five files, as rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.1 rpmpkgs.2 rpmpkgs.3 and rpmpkgs.4 > (1) Download a complete set of RPMs listed in your last good rpmpkgs log > and place them in a directory. Yes what among those five files is the good one ? Do they include the same files listing ?? Do I have to copy/ paste them to form a single huge file ? I ask you that, because while reading different posts, I found a script someone wrote that automate the process to build a new database based on those files you add to form a single file. I can post it in case this could be use by someone, but on my side, I don't know how to use it. Maybe just to run it, with as parameter the name of that rpmpkgs file ..? but see below > (2) Create a script that, for each file in /var/log/rpmpkgs, executes > > rpm -U --justdb <filename> > > (3) If you hadn't added, deleted, or updated any RPMs since the date of > the log file you used, you should be done. Otherwise, add, delete, or > update the remaining packages by hand using the --justdb option. > > Maybe somebody could suggest a shortcut. I don't know if yum can help > here or not. I did differently, but I would like to have your advices/opinions on that : I have another computer at home which has approximatively the same packages as my laptop (the one on which i have those pbs). I zipped all files I had in the /var/lib/rpm directory on my home computer, copied them on my laptop, unzipped them in my laptop:/var/lib/rpm directory, and run against them rpm -vv --rebuilddb. It seems it works again. Was I right or not ?? Thank you. Francois --
