RPM is totally fubar'd after hitting some kind of time-warp?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:42, KSC wrote:
> Whoa... That is weird...
> 
> After installing 0.94, everything seemed peachy. I then installed
> various packages via yum, and compiled additional src.rpms. Proceeded
> to build vanilla 2.6.0-test6 and the nvidia module.
> 
> Everything still good to go.
> 
> Recompiled the kernel again as I forgot netatalk support and rebooted.
> 
> Went to do a yum update and yum bombs out with python errors and a
> message saying that /var/cache/yum/<some-file> didn't exist.
> 
> Lo and behold, the /var/cache/yum directory didn't even exist.

umm. This is bad.

this is really bad.

Are you sure you're not losing any other random bits on this system?

-sv