Do *any* tools exist at all to help reconstruct an rpm database? One of my machines RPM databases got hosed in the upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1. I still have a directory with plenty of data: signal@blackhole signal]$ ls -al /var/lib/rpm total 6304 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 23 17:02 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Nov 23 17:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Dec 9 09:37 conflictsindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Dec 9 09:37 fileindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Dec 9 09:37 groupindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Dec 9 09:37 nameindex.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5247176 Dec 9 09:36 packages.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28672 Dec 9 09:37 providesindex.rpm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 12 1999 rebuilddb.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36864 Dec 9 09:37 requiredby.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Dec 9 09:37 triggerindex.rpm [signal@blackhole signal]$ ls -al /usr/lib/rpm total 618 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 23 16:56 . drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 9216 Nov 23 16:56 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31326 Sep 25 19:49 config.guess -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24212 Sep 25 19:49 config.sub -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2498 Sep 25 19:49 convertrpmrc.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1364 Sep 25 19:49 find-lang.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 723 Sep 25 19:49 find-provides -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1205 Sep 25 19:49 find-requires -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 941 Sep 25 19:49 freshen.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 794 Sep 25 19:49 getpo.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8160 Sep 25 19:49 macros -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 726 Sep 25 19:49 mkinstalldirs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2557 Sep 25 19:49 perl.prov -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2808 Sep 25 19:49 perl.req -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 258792 Sep 25 19:49 rpmgettext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3305 Sep 25 19:49 rpmpopt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 258792 Sep 25 19:49 rpmputtext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7853 Sep 25 19:49 rpmrc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5937 Sep 25 19:49 vpkg-provides.sh And running "strings" on these files reveals that their is indeed a good bit of data in there. The problem is, I have some sort of corrupt entry that keeps giving me an error: [signal@blackhole signal]$ rpm -qa dhcpcd-1.3.17pl5-2 termcap-9.12.6-15 cdecl-2.5-9 fwhois-1.00-11 patch-2.5.3-1 bdflush-1.5-10 glib10-1.0.6-6 byacc-1.9-11 redhat-release-6.1-1 setuptool-1.2-3 ElectricFence-2.1-1 libpng-devel-1.0.3-4 gpm-devel-1.17.9-3 Data type 0 not supported I get it when I try to remove things also: [root@blackhole signal]# rpm -e lynx Data type 0 not supported My question is, what is going on here, I am assuming somehow the data format got hosed, and if I could somehow "dump"t this data, edit out the bad parts and rebuild it, that would be most helpfull. Or if some sort of repair utility exists. [root@blackhole signal]# rpm --rebuilddb Data type 0 not supported Please someone tell me their is a way I can fix this! ----------------------------------------------------- Brian Feeny (BF304) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
