On Monday, Aug 16th 2004 at 00:30 +0200, quoth Enrique Perez-Terron: =>On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:12, stuartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: =>> To save space I deleted all files in /var/spool/up2date and =>> /var/spool/repackage. I don't think I was in /var/lib/rpm... =>> I then did an rpm -qa and saw no rpms! =>> I then did rpm --initdb --> no packages if I rpm -qa =>> I then did rpm --rebuilddb --> no packages if I rpm -qa =>> I then tried to install a package and I got tons of failed dependencies =>> like missing glibc and bash. =>> All programs are on the system but I can not get rpm to know about them. =>> I can not install packages and be assured of dependencies.. =>> up2date thinks I have nothing on the system too! =>> How can this be fixed. =>> I had no backups of /var I didn't think anything important was there. => =>Quick, check the file /var/log/rpmpkgs, if it is there make a copy =>before it is overwritten. => =>The package "rpm" places a script in /etc/cron.daily/rpm, and this =>script executes "rpm -qa" (with a few additional options) and places the =>output in said file. Cron, or perhaps it is "anacron", runs the scripts =>in /etc/cron.daily once a day, on my machine it happens usually at 4 AM =>every night. => =>Using this list you can probably reconstruct the rpm database. =>I don't know how yet, do you have the Fedora Core 2 CD's or iso images? =>I bet I can reconstruct that database on my computer and send it to you =>if you send me the list. => =>Regards, =>Enrique If you have the file then just use rpm --justdb -Uvh $(< rpmpkgs) -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
