Fix Broken RPM System?
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sat Jul 3 22:46:34 UTC 2004
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:44:26 -0700 (PDT), Ryan La Mothe wrote:
> Okay, here is the problem:
>
> 1) I updated RPM from updates (up2date and apt-get)
> 2) Don't remember doing anything else to RPM after that
> 3) Used rpm -e to uninstall redhat's old mysql and related programs
> 4) Now, when I use RPM for anything I get "Segmentation Fault"
>
>
> How do I fix RPM? This is very scary because I am working on this
> server for entry into a corporate environment. If RPM is not fixable
> (from tar.gz source? which I can't find anywhere), then I am dumping
> this distribution like a bad habit because a single update like this
> causing system-wide disaster is scary as hell.
>
> Please Help.
Boot first CD in rescue mode, don't enter the chroot, mount your system
somewhere, run the working RPM from within the rescue environment together
with a proper --root option (e.g. --root /mnt/yoursystem) to reinstall the
original RPM packages from CD.
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