On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: > > > 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. > > > Of course, I did it !!!!!! ---- maybe you don't have enough space yet... what's output of... df -h 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
