On Wed, 04 May 2005 12:19:42 +0100, Mark Farmer wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:10:04 +0200 , Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > >> Iam having the following problem: > >> #rpm -qa gave the following output > >> > >>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > >> > >> Then I did the following: > >> > >> #mkdir /var/lib/rpm > >> #rpm --initdb > >> # ls -la /var/lib/rpm > >>total 24 > >>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 08:58 . > >>drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 4 08:57 .. > >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 May 4 08:57 Packages > >> > >> > >> When I execute "rpm -qa" I get no output.Iam missing a lot of information > >>in rpm directory. > > > > > > Right, the entire database is missing, and you initialised an empty > > one after creating the directory. > > > > > >> How can I recreate it? > > > > > > Restore the files from your backups. > > > > You could try rpm --rebuilddb > That should build a new database No, it won't do that in this case. The manual page contains a hint why it won't work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
