Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> /bin/rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
>> rpm --initdb
>> rpm --rebuilddb
>> chown rpm:rpm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
>
> Is your fedora-release package still OK?
>
> $ rpm -qi fedora-release
[root@arbol ~]# rpm -qi fedora-release
package fedora-release is not installed
How do I recreate that? Is there any other data I need to initialize
the database with?
BTW. "yum -C list" does show 5736 lines of packages, 661 marked as
installed. The "rpm --rebuild" did pick up the information from the
real packages.
[root@arbol ~]# yum -C list
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
ImageMagick.i386 6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3 installed
ImageMagick.x86_64 6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.3 installed
MAKEDEV.x86_64 3.21-3 installed
NetworkManager-glib.x86_64 0.6.3-1.fc5 installed
ORBit2.x86_64 2.14.0-1 installed
PyXML.x86_64 0.8.4-3.2.2 installed
Just For the record, and the most disconcerting part, was that nothing
out of the ordinary happened just before the yum db trashed itself. I
had just finined a "yum update" "shutdown -r now" and after they
machine rebooted I tried to do a "yum list > yum-list.txt" so I would
have a snapshot of what I had installed and what was available.
Does the db use a server that might have been updating the db file
when I rebooted?
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
