At 7:29 AM -0400 11/30/06, Rodolfo Alcazar wrote: >On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:30 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 11:39 AM -0500 11/29/06, Ray Pittigher wrote: >> >I had the same problem and did >> > >> >rpm --initdb >> >rpm --rebuilddb >> > >> >and it all worked after >> >> After "rpm --initdb" you have an empty RPM database. After "rpm >> --rebuilddb" you still have an empty RPM database. See what "rpm -qa" says. > >Look this output, I tried this home, also. My office FC6 rpm database is >yet fixed and no more segmentation faults: > >[rap] /root # rpm --initdb >[rap] /root # rpm -qa | head >mktemp-1.5-23.2.1 >libxml2-2.6.23-1.2 >audiofile-0.2.6-2.2.1 >libacl-2.2.34-1.2 >mailx-8.1.1-44.2.1 >speex-1.0.5-1.2.1 >procmail-3.22-16.2.1 >libusb-0.1.11-2.2 >libXrender-0.9.0.2-3.2 >libXfixes-3.0.1.2-2.2 >[rap] /root # rpm --rebuilddb >[rap] /root # rpm -qa | head >libusb-0.1.11-2.2 >libtheora-1.0alpha5-1.2.1 >numactl-0.6.4-1.27 >libXft-2.1.8.2-3.2 >libwvstreams-4.2.1-2 >urw-fonts-2.3-6.1 >xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.1.0.5-1.2 >bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5.1 >distcache-1.4.5-13 >libXmu-devel-1.0.0-2.2 >[rap] /root # > >> Don't do "rpm --initdb" unless you are willing to re-install all the >> packages you already have (using --justdb). > >After that procedure, I was afraid of losing something, cause its the >first time I tried this, and realizing now there was a risk. Luckily yum >check-update worked fine. Also by home. > >>From the manual: > >"Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the >database indices from the installed package headers." > >Anyway, thanks, Tony. If you can be more specific about what should we >lose if making an initdb, please let us know. You are correct. I was repeating advice I had seen many times, which advice appears to be wrong. Looking at the source code for RPM, I think that it tries to open the database, creating it if it is absent. Running "rpm -vv --initdb --dbpath /my/saved/database" only mentions opening the Packages file, which was left untouched. Doing "rpm -vv --verifydb" mentions each database file, so I think that --initdb must be opening only the Packages file, and not removing any files. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
