On Monday 06 February 2006 09:33, Ovidiu Lixandru wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a FC4 system. While doing an yum update today, the power was > cut. Upon booting the machine again and trying to resume the update, yum > complained about a corrupted db. > I initially tried "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*". Nothing. Moved onto "rpm > --rebuilddb". Only ~100 packages made it back into the db from the total > of 1000+. > Upon googling around, I found out about rpm --justdb. My > /var/log/rpmpkgs file is intact, all the previously installed files are > in it. But upon running "rpm --justdb --notriggers --noscripts -Uvh > /var/log/rpmpkgs", rpm complains (of course) about the missing rpm > files. Is there any way of automatically downloading the required files > and serving them to rpm? yum --downloadonly seems to have vanished, too. > I'd be most grateful for your suggestions. > TIA I gave this advice for recovery before and may well work for you. What I suggested; --->First read the man and info pages for these commands so you <--- --->understand what is being done (if you already don't ).<---- You can force updates and installs ->rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps filename.rpm If that doesn't work move each into a clean directory (I.E. mkdir 1 etc.), then; ->rpm2cpio libbeecrypt6-4.1.2-9.1_10.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm | cpio -iv --make-directories . #note '.' for current dir. ->mv -f file /to/the/proper/dir # the rpm2cpio will make subdirectories in the 'clean' directories you made. After all this fun then you need to go back and; ->rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps filename.rpm # to cause rpm to recognize that the package is installed. ->rpm --rebuilddb ( There are possibly simpler ways but this does work-- I have done this myself to fix rpm -the package manager, yum and apt-get from a broken version upgrade) Anyone have a better way I would like to hear it also. -- John Ludwig
