On 10/13/2011 01:30 AM, Bojan Smojver wrote: > This is probably not worthy of a bug report, but may still be useful to > confirm a problem that someone else may have experienced. > > I resurrected an old notebook (HP Pavilion ZE4201) to test some stuff > under relatively low memory conditions (768 MB on the box). Installed > F-16 Beta i686 onto it with no trouble whatsoever. > > On first boot, went to update the system, only to get RPM errors of > database in /var/lib/rpm needing recovery. The recovery (db_recover > -h /var/lib/rpm) completely shot the database and after running rpm > --rebuilddb the system was left in a state where vast number of packages > are not being reported (including rpm itself). Out of about 1,400 > packages, only 400 were left in the DB. In case you (or anybody else for that matter) manage to reproduce this, please take a copy of the exact error messages and backup /var/lib/rpm contents before attempting any kind of recovery. "It gave a bunch of errors and recovery blew it up" is not sufficient information to attempt analyzing what went wrong. - Panu - -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
