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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