Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 04 February 2006 20:50, Jim Cornette wrote:
Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:
Hi there,
While running a yum update the hdd did get an error and the system
was remounted in read only mode.
The error seems gone, but the rpmdb is not fine anymore, i did do
rpm --rebuilddb
But now i get weird errors with installing packages, like dupes or
already installed (but it is not).
How do i create a new rpmdb with current installed packages?
Or am i doomed? :)
Danny
Basically, you have to find the multiple version installed rpms and
use a option to rpm called --justdb. this option will remove only the
database entry for the old nonexistent package entry and then you
could use the -V or --verify option to rpm to ensure the later
installed version is intact. No output should show on the verify.
Someone on the test list posted this one-line command to allow an
output to the terminal which will detect multiple entries of
packages. The kernel and the gpg-pubkey and any other package that
allows for multiple versions to coexist. If you are running a 64-bit
system, the command will not work well.
rpm -aq --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v -E " *1 "
For packages that are not actually installed but are in the rpm
database, it might be a tougher issue to deal with. You would need to
run something like 'rpm -qa |grep missing' as root to detect packages
which have missing files. Then you can either download the rpms and
use rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs <package.rpm>
or remove the database entry for the messed up package and do a 'yum
install <package>' on the shortchanged package. Yum should not know it
is installed and install over whatever remained of the package.
This other suggestions or you're doomed as you stated above. :-)
Jim
Hmm, jumping in here, that command above returns this:
[root@coyote example]# rpm -aq --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | sort | uniq
-c | grep -v -E " *1 "
2 gnome-mag
2 gnome-speech
28 gpg-pubkey
2 kernel
2 perl-Digest-HMAC
2 perl-Digest-SHA1
2 perl-Time-HiRes
Frankly, with as much stuff as I've built and installed from tarballs,
using either the make install or the checkinstall option, I would have
thought the output would have been much more verbose. I use kde, self
installed, so those gnome entries could probably be removed. Is there
a way to get the versions back from that command automaticly?
There was a script out there that someone made that made a file in the
/tmp directory, then compared the uniq version and outputted the version
information for the multiple versions. I long lost the script but it is
in the archives on the fedora-test-list.
I guess you could add rpm -q on the short list with the packagename
files. The exact versions should show using the rpm -q function.
I should learn scripting instead of using ready-made scripts. Some day
maybe.
Jim
