On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:36:07AM -0800, Randy Arnold wrote: > > I am sure that this is self inflicted. > I did an upgrade to RH 8.0 from 7.3. > > I had many problems with RPM, and seemed to have them > resolved them with the help of this list. > > Now, for some reason my RPM database is gone. > > When I do rpm -qa all I see is the rpm packages. > > rpm --rebuild takes all of one second to complete. > rpm --initdb does not help.
If you did an --initdb, the database really is gone now if it wasn't before. That's the purpose of initdb. man rpm would have told you that. > The packages *are* installed and everything works, with > exception of up2date which makes sense. > > Any ideas? If you have backups of /var/lib/rpm, restore them. If not, you've got 2 basic choices, both ugly: 1. Find every file on the system and attempt to determine which package they came from. Then rpm -ivh --justdb <package>. If you registered and updated via RHN, then go to the web site and extract the package list. That will save you a *lot* of work. If you've done an up2date -p since you corrupted your database, you've dug yourself deeper in a hole. 2. Do a fresh install. That's why we have backups. If you accidently corrupt something critical, like you did, you can restore. At an absolute minimum, backup the output of rpm -qa. A Red Hat Linux system without a valid rpm database is extremely difficult to manage. If you have an accurate package list from RHN or your backups, use option 1. If you don't, use option 2. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
