Jacques wrote:
Hi everybody
My problem is simple, but apparently not simple to resolve.
I already asked this question on two different forums (fedora and sitepoint), without any positive answer.
Being newbie to this kind of information distribution, I apologize if any procedural order is bypassed.
yum (and/or yumex) has lost the database of all installed packages on my FC5 system machine...
! yum does not store the installed packages database; rpm does.
yumex is a gui extension to yum, and hence requires yum to make it work.
yum uses the rpm system to install and remove packages, and hence rpm
must be working before yum {or yumex can work}. Hence you need to get
rpm in a decent state before even trying anything with yum/yumex.
The problem is now that :
1- I cannot update anything, because nothing shows as installed.
2- I cannot remove anything for the same reason.
3- I cannot install anything because so many packages are logically not installed, making yum/yumex enter in a dependencies frenzy.
4- beyond this problem, the machine works fine. It's still the one i'm working on at present time.
Presently, yumex is configured without the Auto refresh on start in the Edit -> Preferences.
Here is the result after going through the repositories refresh.
10:03:17 : Current Settings :
10:03:17 : autocleanup: False
10:03:17 : autorefresh: False
10:03:17 : debug: True
10:03:17 : exclude: []
10:03:17 : filelists: False
10:03:17 : fullobsoletion: False
10:03:17 : mirrordetection: 'best'
10:03:17 : noplugins: False
10:03:17 : processsafemode: True
10:03:17 : proxy: ''
10:03:17 : recentdays: 14
10:03:17 : usecache: False
10:03:17 : Mirrordetection : best
10:03:17 : Yum Version : 2.6.1 (/usr/share/yum-cli)
10:03:17 : Setup Yum : Config
10:03:17 : Setup Yum : Plugins
10:03:17 : Setup Yum : Transaction Set
10:03:17 : Setup Yum : RPM Db.
10:03:17 : Setup Yum : Base setup completed
10:03:17 : Enable/Disable Repositories
10:03:22 : Loading Repositories Data
10:03:22 : Loading Repositories Data : Init. core repository
10:03:22 : Loading Repositories Data : Init. extras repository
10:03:22 : Loading Repositories Data : Init. updates repository
10:03:22 : Loading Repositories Data : Populate Package Sack for core
10:03:22 : Loading Repositories Data : Populate Package Sack for extras
10:19:17 : Added 217 new packages, deleted 171 old in 24.89 seconds
10:19:17 : Loading Repositories Data : Populate Package Sack for updates
10:25:59 : Added 24 new packages, deleted 17 old in 5.47 seconds
10:26:01 : Loading Repository Group Data
10:36:47 : Loading Repositories Data completed
10:36:47 : Building Package Lists : Updates
10:36:50 : Building Package Lists : 0 Updates found
10:36:50 : Building Package Lists : Installed
10:36:50 : Building Package Lists : 0 Installed packages found
10:36:50 : Building Package Lists : Available
10:37:48 : Building Package Lists : 5972 Available packages found
10:37:48 : Building Package Lists completed
10:37:49 : Updating groups view, populate view with data
10:37:49 : Repository initialization completed in 2072.17 seconds
Can someone give me a clue on how to rebuild the installed packages database ?
I already went through a yum cleanall and
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb
It does not work either.
Did you do the above as a single command {it does need to be separate} ?
Perhaps try the
# rpm -v --rebuilddb
Post any output that this gives (attachment if it is larger than a page).
There are some options with rpm that let you work on the database but
not actually install/remove anything, and vice-versa.
Trying to remember 1000+ installed packages is probably unlikely, but
there may be some useful log files still available:
Perhaps make a copy of them first:
# mkdir logs-old
# cp /var/log/yum*.log log-old
# cp /var/log/rpm*.log log-old
The rpm log is the list of installed packages at 4:00 on each of the
last 4 sunday mornings {or when the PC was next on}.
You would probably want to have the dvd inserted so that any package
required is findable.
Then for the items in the rpm log:
# rpm -Uvh --justdb kernel etc.
This will go through all the steps except actually installing the
package's files to hard disk.
I can't think of a more automated way to make it good.
DaveT.
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