On Thu, 22 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?
Hello Panu,
The larger rpmpkgs file is the following one:
rpmpkgs-20090111
from 2008-12-30
The following one is only 462 block compared to 61748
Concerning the message files, I attached the last one, I do not see anything
bad, the CPU0 temperature is 34 °C, so I do not thing that it is
wrong. However the -12V and +12V are wrong according to gkrellM system
monitor. But is it right, I doubt that the machine would work with 0.63 and
3.95 V instead.
Furthermore concerning the messages file, /messages-20090111 is empty
as well as the following one: messages-20090118
/var is ext3 (on /)
/usr, /usr/lib, /usr/local are lvm2
What do you thing ?
Nothing out of ordinary there.. what does 'stat -f /var' say on these
problematic systems (as you said you have two systems with these
problems)?
Noticed from the df output in another mail that the root partition was
fairly small so it might be subject to a more or less known issue of
filesystem blocksize of 1024 (at least on ext3) causing rpmdb corruption.
- Panu -
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