Yum has screwed up my system :-(

[Johan Henes]

Thanks !

Looks like this is not so easy ...

when running rpm --rebuilddb I get :

[root at notes root]# rpm --rebuilddb
Illegal instruction

Looks like I have to find my CDs...

An strace is attached...

Best regards,

Johan

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:23, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:05:19PM +0200, Johan Henes wrote:
> > Hi !
> > 
> > I do not know if this is the right list for this posting, but here I go
> > :
> > 
> > On a FC1 server, a colleague has added freshrpms and ATRPMS in addition
> > to the "normal" two repositories for updating Fedora. After a "yum
> > update" (and another yum update with the "original yum.conf after that)
> > the system looks totally screwed.
> > 
> > ie. a rpm -q kernel gives "packet not installed"....
> > 
> > I have tried to repair the rpm database with no success...
> > 
> > A rpm -qa returns maybe 150 rpms....
> > 
> > It looks like i have a combination of rpms that really does not like
> > eachother :-)
> 
> I don't think so, freshrpms & atrpms have been doing very well as a
> combination for the last two years. I assume that you had the infamous
> rpm database corruption bug:
> 
> http://rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
> 
> Even though it has improved very much in latest rpm versions there are
> still reports of corrupted rpm databases (check the fedora lists and
> bugzilla.redhat.com).
> 
> > Is it possible to get the system back to its "normal" state using yum
> > with the two original repositories, or are the CDS my only way out ???
> 
> Try
> 
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> If that does not help, your rpm database is gone.
> 
> Also try du -s /var/lib/rpm, for a full install you should get >=
> 100MB, including full freshrpms and atrpms ~= 120MB. For 150 packages
> you would get ~10MB, so if there are no more than 10-20MB you can
> forget resurrecting the rpm database :(
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