Hello,
For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up.
rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially.
The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them.
How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ?
Find the latest intact /var/log/rpmpkgs* file (ie one that got generated
before the db got corrupted, file size should be a good indicator) and copy
it somewhere safe, say /root/rpmpkgs.backup. Now you should be able to make
fairly good recovery with something like:
# mv /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.busted
# mkdir /var/tmp/download; cd /var/tmp/download
# yumdownloader `sed -e "s/.rpm$//g" /root/rpmpkgs.backup`
# rpm -Uvh --notriggers --noscripts --justdb *.rpm
The question of course is, what got the database corrupted to begin with.
Did anything out of the ordinary happen at that time, like /var getting
full? Segfaults logged in /var/log/messages*? What filesystem is /var on?
Hello Panu,
The larger rpmpkgs file is the following one:
rpmpkgs-20090111
from 2008-12-30
The following one is only 462 block compared to 61748
Concerning the message files, I attached the last one, I do not see anything
bad, the CPU0 temperature is 34 °C, so I do not thing that it is
wrong. However the -12V and +12V are wrong according to gkrellM system
monitor. But is it right, I doubt that the machine would work with 0.63 and
3.95 V instead.
Furthermore concerning the messages file, /messages-20090111 is empty
as well as the following one: messages-20090118
/var is ext3 (on /)
/usr, /usr/lib, /usr/local are lvm2
What do you thing ?