On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 23:58, Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> OK, this is weird. My /var/lib/rpm/Packages file on my server is 900k
> and if I do an rpm -qa I only get 32 entries. It's 28Mb on my other RH9
> box. Am I toast?
It's likely that the RPM database on your server is toast, yes
(hopefully not you!).
Your options are to reinstall or (likely more work but with less
interruption to the services) trying to re-create the thing. The latter
would be re-installing all packages that were installed on the machine
(preferrably after moving away /var/lib/rpm && "rpm --initdb" to be sure
the RPM db isn't hosed still), the crux is to find out which packages
were installed. A few methods to achieve this are:
- Look in /usr/share/doc, most packages have a doc directory which is
named after the package name and version
- Afterwards look in /etc, /sbin, /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, ... after
files that are not owned by a package; look which packages own these on
your other machine
Good luck,
Nils
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