Re: Fedora Core 2 lost all ability to make DB of installed rpms

[Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio online no>]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:12, stuartb@thelinuxlink.net wrote:
> To save space I deleted all files in /var/spool/up2date and
> /var/spool/repackage. I don't think I was in /var/lib/rpm...
> I then did an rpm -qa and saw no rpms!
> I then did rpm --initdb  --> no packages if I rpm -qa
> I then did rpm --rebuilddb --> no packages if I rpm -qa
> I then tried to install a package and I got tons of failed dependencies
> like missing glibc and bash.
> All programs are on the system but I can not get rpm to know about them.
> I can not install packages and be assured of dependencies..
> up2date thinks I have nothing on the system too!
> How can this be fixed.
> I had no backups of /var   I didn't think anything important was there.

Quick, check the file /var/log/rpmpkgs, if it is there make a copy
before it is overwritten.

The package "rpm" places a script in /etc/cron.daily/rpm, and this
script executes "rpm -qa" (with a few additional options) and places the
output in said file. Cron, or perhaps it is "anacron", runs the scripts
in /etc/cron.daily once a day, on my machine it happens usually at 4 AM
every night.

Using this list you can probably reconstruct the rpm database.
I don't know how yet, do you have the Fedora Core 2 CD's or iso images?
I bet I can reconstruct that database on my computer and send it to you
if you send me the list.

Regards,
Enrique


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