Re: RPM database gone

[RTS <rts rdr net>]

I believe there is a rebuild command for RPM.

try 	rpm -rebuilddb

This should rebuild the database

RTS



At 12:58 PM 9/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I've just tried to upgrade my system from RedHat 5.2 to 6.0.
>I was told that my /usr had too little space, and tried to
>abort installation so I could free up some space.  There is 
>no elegant way to do so from the installation menu.  
>I now know that one should type Ctrl-Z and kill the install 
>process from the command line.  Instead, I did the three-finger 
>salute, which on a running system works just fine, decent shutdown 
>etc, but on the install system just makes it disappear like DOS.  
>
>Problems on rebooting: file systems needed checking, no sweat,
>but the RPM database is gone.  Not RPMsaved, nothing.  Can it
>really be true that there is no copy of it, anywhere?  Is there
>no way to get it back?
>
>Dirk
>
>
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