RPM database

Bevan C. Bennett bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Thu Mar 4 23:07:01 UTC 2004


Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Jason Dixon wrote:
> 
>>
>> Just restore from your backups, then rpm --rebuilddb.
>>
> Sadly this was our backup server , and we never made a backup of it ... 
> just from the other machines... I found out that I've lost the index 
> files for the amanda backups I had , so I can simply reinstall my server 
> now...
> The odd thing: it was installed on a set of raid 1 partitions... /boot 
> and / were different on each disk ( /boot had the old 2149 kernel on one 
> disk and the other had only 2166 and 2174 kernels..) I wish I knew why 
> this difference , as raid 1 is supposed to be mirroring...

It sounds like the mirror got broken at some point, perhaps when a disk 
error was detected (yielding seven kernel versions of bad luck).

If you don't watch the logs closely, it can be disturbingly easy to miss 
RAID-related messages for things like 'I failed this drive today'.





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