Alastair McKinley wrote:
Peter Skensved wrote:
I would start by backing up /root, /boot, /etc and /var
plus anything installed in /usr/local and /home . Next get a list of
all installed RPMs ( rpm -qa | sort or rpm -a --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort )
and save them somewhere. With that information you can
probably reconstruct your laptop if everything fails ( this
assumes you always install binaries
from RPM files and stuff from random tar files in /usr/local )
Once you have done that run rpm -Va and save the output. This
will give you a list of missing files. Try installing the missing
ones with rpm -Uv --force . If that works then heck for .rpmnew files
and try reconstructing any munged configuration files.
I've successfully done the above with a really clobbered file
system on a laptop.
peter
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Peter Skensved Email : peter SNO Phy QueensU CA
Dept. of Physics,
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your advice. I managed to install enough libraries
manually to get rpm up and running again. What will the rpm -Uv
--force command actually do?
Patrick Boutilier wrote:
Reinstall the RPM (files as well) even though the RPM is already
installed according to the RPM database.
Can yum do something similar and go and get the packages from the repos?
Alastair
