Yum has screwed up my system :-(

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:25:40AM +0200, Johan Henes wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 00:08, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Johan Henes wrote:
> > > Thanks !
> > > 
> > > Looks like this is not so easy ...
> > > 
> > > when running rpm --rebuilddb I get :
> > > 
> > > [root at notes root]# rpm --rebuilddb
> > > Illegal instruction
> > 
> > did you try prepending LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1?
> 
> Yes I did :-)
> 
> > Illegal instruction hints to an unsupported CPU. What system is this
> > running on?
> 
> [root at notes root]# uname -a
> Linux notes.smartnet.no 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp #1 SMP Wed Oct 29 15:30:09
> EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> This is a Dual P4 3GHz server.

That is well supported, of course.

> > What's the size of
> > 
> > du -s /var/lib/rpm
> 
> [root at notes root]# du -s /var/lib/rpm/
> 10232   /var/lib/rpm

Your database is too small to be resurrected. Whatever ate it up, it
has done so quite good :(

> > If it is closer to 100MB than to 10MB then yes, and your issues may be
> > nptl not working on your platform.
> > 
> > Make sure you don't have hardware eating your database.

Try memtest86 and reinstall. If it is hardware you will not see the
problem again at the same installation point but earlier or later.

BTW I just setup two FC2/PCs (P4 single proc. and Opteron SMP) from
scratch with ATrpms, freshrpms and a dozen other repos w/o any issues,
so the repos are indeed currently in a clean and compatible state.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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