I think I was unfortunate enough to suffer some broken RPM database
issues. I couldn't uninstall anything, and `rpm --rebuilddb` seemed to
get hung up somewhere. At that point, I just burned my data files to CDR
(after having to get cdrecord reinstalled from source) and re-installed
RH. Bummer,
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but
> that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do?
>
> What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I
> could just up2date --force for each package th
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:10:08PM -0600, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but
> that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do?
>
> What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I
> could just up2date --force
Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but
that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do?
What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I
could just up2date --force for each package that rpm -V
reports missing files for. But the up2date d
So a few nights ago, power went out and my machine came down hard. I had
to run fsck manually, and there is a lot of stuff in /lost+found. I'm
finding many things aren't working right, indeed there are many exe's
missing. How do I repair this? I thought the journaling in ext3 was
supposed to he
