Re: Totem=noshow

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On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 08:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 06:42, Jim Cornette wrote:

> >If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.
> 
> I think we've succeeded in this case. :(

Gene, the hanging problem that you had initially is documented in the
following URL:


http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/


It also seems to be something that's not completely out of date.  There
is another approach, which I originally posted to the Mandrake lists a
long time ago.  It is a cookbook procedure showing how to do a manual
reconstruction of an rpm database using actually installed file
information from the system. It's a little dated but the commands used
are not, I feel the procedure is good.  Here's the original link and the
content:

http://www.informatimago.com/linux/rpm-rebuilddb.html
____________________________________________________________________



 On one of my Mandrake Linux systems, I had once this problem: 
     [pascal@hermes pascal]$ su
     Password: 
     [root@hermes pascal]# rpm -q -a
     failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
 
     rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
     [root@hermes pascal]# rpm --rebuilddb
     failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
 
     [root@hermes pascal]# rpm --initdb
     [root@hermes pascal]# rpm -q -a
     failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
 
     rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
     [root@hermes pascal]# rpm --version
     RPM version 3.0.3


Well, clearly the RPM database was completely out of usage. I had to
rebuild it.You may think that it's simply a matter of using : 

   rpm --rebuilddb

 However, I learned that --rebuilddb is REALLY AND COMPLETELY USELESS.
Maybe the authors and contributors to rpm could take some idea from this
NFAQ to actually
 implement a true --rebuilddb option. 

The main idea of the process is to use: 

    rm -f /var/lib/rpm/* ; rpm --initdb

 and: 

    rpm -i -v --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers --excludepath /
packages...

 to fill a package database without really installing anything (not
overriding installed files, not running any script, ...). This is done
in the seventh step; everything before I made to recover a list of
installed packages. 

This is not perfect, since some packages I have upgraded or modified the
sourcesand upgraded. I should have checked for /usr/src/RPMS too; I'll
update the database later by hand to synchronize it with the handful of
packages I touched after the initial installation. 



+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| COOKBOOK PROCEDURE TO REBUILD A RPM DATABASE DAMAGED BEYOND HOPE |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+          

####
#### BEWARE, THIS IS NOT AN AUTOMATIC SCRIPT!
####
#### Use this only as a guideline to rebuild your rpm database.
####


#####
# 1 # Find the files currently installed.
#   # ON THE HOST WHO LOST ITS RPM DATABASE.
#####

find / -print | sort > /tmp/dsk-contents



#####
# 2 # Find all the files installed by the installation RPMs, 
#   # with their corresponding RPM.
#####

losetup /dev/loop0  /mnt/usr3/mandrake/mandrake61-1.iso 
mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom

cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
rm -f /tmp/rpm-contents
for f in *.rpm ; do 
    rpm -q -l -p $f \
    | awk -v pn=$f '{printf "%s:%s\n",pn,$0;}' >> /tmp/rpm-contents
done
sort -t: +1 -o /tmp/rpm-contents /tmp/rpm-contents



#####
# 3 # Obtain the actually installed RPMs.
#####



gzip -d < lgetvalue-src.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd lgetvalue-src
make all test


./lgetvalue    --field-separator=: \
               --key-position=2 \
               --value-position=1 \
               /tmp/rpm-contents /tmp/dsk-contents \
| sort -u > /tmp/rpm-installed



#####
# 4 # Reinitialize a new rpm database.
#####

mv /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm-damaged-beyond-hope
mkdir /var/lib/rpm
rpm --initdb



#####
# 5 # Let rpm say what problems there may be 
#   # (trying to do a pseudo-installation.
#####

cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
rpm -i -v --noscripts --notriggers --excludepath /
`cat /tmp/rpm-installed`



#####
# 6 # Correct the list of installed RPMs.
#####

emacs /tmp/rpm-installed


#####
# 7 # Rebuild the rpm data base, without installing any file 
#   # nor running any script.
#####

rpm -i -v --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers --excludepath /  \
    `cat /tmp/rpm-installed `


#####
# 8 # Check you have a valid rpm database.
#####

rpm -q -a 
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