-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 March 2003 11:46 am, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Quotes are edited. > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:36:07AM -0800, Randy Arnold wrote: > > > Now, for some reason my RPM database is gone. > > > > > > 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. > > > > If you have an accurate package list from RHN or your backups, use > > option 1. If you don't, use option 2. > > If you have an accurate package list, then you don't have to go through > the pain of finding the packages for all files. Just "rpm -ivh > --justdb <package> for each of the packages. > > One of the weekly cron jobs dumps the results of "rpm -qa" to > /var/log/rpmpkgs. That might be a place to start, but you'll need to > know what you've upgraded since the last dump.
Save a good copy of /var/log/rpmpkgs before it gets overwritten. Or, save the week old copy /var/log/rpmpkgs.1 before log rotate runs. If you have a good copy of /var/log/rpmpkgs, and access to the installed packages (on CD, in var/spool/up2date, etc) I have a script that may be useful. $ ./recover_rpm_db.sh Usage: recover_rpm_db.sh -f [file_name] -p [path[s] to rpm files]. Where 'file_name' is a file containing a list of rpm packages that should be included in the rpm database, and -p is the path or paths that contain the rpm packages. Multiple paths may be given. It's here: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hacks/recover_rpm_db.sh It's a little rough around the edges, but will do the job. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+aRu4n/07WoAb/SsRAtIZAJ9TANH0/tuBnueudfDBaMXi6sZarQCgkSEm 56IkSnd4ElIe/VJxOqslXlI= =BoKI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
