On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > > Tried running --initdb ... > > > > Oh dear, you appear to have wiped out your database. You now need to > > restore it from backups, or remember what packages you had installed > > (look in /var/log/rpm*) and use rpm --justdb for each package to > > recreate it. In some cases it is simpler to re-install. > > I did a rebuilddb and everything seems to be in the db. I did a rpm -q for all > the packages I know I installed and they pop right up. I thought that --initd > created the db and --rebuilddb rebuilt it based on the stored headers? rpm --initdb creates a clean empty database, and unless they have changed things recently, overwrites the existing database, including the bits that rpm --rebuilddb uses to rebuild the database from. It sounds like you have had a lucky escape. Michael Young
