Accidentally deleted contents of /var/lib/ (Dale Sykora)

[Saurabh Barve]

Saurabh Barve wrote:

 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> I am running FC2. I accidentally deleted the entire contents of my
 >> /var/lib/ directory. As a result, rpm -qa shows up nothing. Also, the


 >>>>Saurabh,
 >>>>	You might be able to get a pkg list from /var/log/yum.log or
 >>>>/var/log/rpmpkgs and then update/reinstall these packages.  I'm not 
 >>>>sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try.

 >>>>Thanks,

 >>>>Dale


Hi,

I copied over the entire /var/lib directory from another machine that 
was configured like this machine. I then did 'rpm --rebuilddb'. I then 
got a whole list of packages with 'rpm -qa'. I was also able to get my 
partitions exported using nfs. However, I don't know if the rpm database 
has been restored to its original self. I did a diff between 
/var/lib/rpm/Packages and /var/log/yum.log, and they differ. Am I right 
in comparing the two?

I also ran 'up2date --update' and 'yum update' just in case, and while 
up2date didn't update anything, yum returned one update, which I thought 
normal (it updated ethereal).

Is there anything else I need to do to bring the system back in its 
original condition? Maybe reboot it?

Thanks for all the help so far.

Saurabh.





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