On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 01:00 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up. > >> rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially. > >> The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them. > >> How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ? > > > > Find the latest intact /var/log/rpmpkgs* file (ie one that got generated > > before the db got corrupted, file size should be a good indicator) and copy > > it somewhere safe, say /root/rpmpkgs.backup. Now you should be able to make > > fairly good recovery with something like: > > > > # mv /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.busted > > # mkdir /var/tmp/download; cd /var/tmp/download > > # yumdownloader `sed -e "s/.rpm$//g" /root/rpmpkgs.backup` > > # rpm -Uvh --notriggers --noscripts --justdb *.rpm > > > > The question of course is, what got the database corrupted to begin with. > > Did anything out of the ordinary happen at that time, like /var getting full? > > Segfaults logged in /var/log/messages*? What filesystem is /var on? > > > > - Panu - > It just end up with disk full !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ---- you have to fix that - there's no way you can have a working software package system with a full disk - it just gets corrupted. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
