On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:04 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:
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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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 !!!!!!
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maybe you don't have enough space yet...
what's output of...
df -h
/dev/sdc5 2.9G 1.8G 961M 66% /
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr 6.9G 4.1G 2.5G 63% /usr
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr_lib
6.0G 2.0G 3.7G 35% /usr/lib
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr_local
5.0G 1.8G 3.0G 38% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr_src
5.0G 1.4G 3.4G 29% /usr/src
/dev/mapper/VG1-tmp 2.0G 263M 1.7G 14% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VG1-home 8.9G 4.9G 3.6G 58% /home
/dev/mapper/VG1-iso_image
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OK - small hard drive is killing you but if this doesn't work...
rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
then your only hope for fixing this would be to follow the instructions
here...
http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery
OK, but /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_sta is not part of rpm for fedora !
Regards
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indeed - they seem to have removed the db4 utilities from rpmdb
even worse, I installed db4-utils package and ran...
# cd /var/lib/rpm
# db_dump Packages
db_dump: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.5
db_dump: DB_ENV->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version
mismatch
which means that I can't use db4-utils to do anything with rpmdb on
Fedora 10
and my guess is that you don't have enough space in /var to follow
Panu's suggestion of using the logs to download the packages all over
again to recreate the db (perhaps /home has enough space). I'd follow
his suggestions except I would operate in a directory under /home
because of disk space concerns.
I agree
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