Accidentally deleted contents of /var/lib/ (Dale Sykora)
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Wed Mar 16 22:31:19 UTC 2005
The yum logs and the packages file are very different. The rpm packages
file is actually a Berkeley database file. The yum log is more when
stuff got added and deleted and the rpm database is what you currently
have.
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Saurabh Barve
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:23 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Accidentally deleted contents of /var/lib/ (Dale Sykora)
Saurabh Barve wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running FC2. I accidentally deleted the entire contents of my
>> /var/lib/ directory. As a result, rpm -qa shows up nothing. Also,
the
>>>>Saurabh,
>>>> You might be able to get a pkg list from /var/log/yum.log or
>>>>/var/log/rpmpkgs and then update/reinstall these packages. I'm not
>>>>sure if it will work, but it may be worth a try.
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Dale
Hi,
I copied over the entire /var/lib directory from another machine that
was configured like this machine. I then did 'rpm --rebuilddb'. I then
got a whole list of packages with 'rpm -qa'. I was also able to get my
partitions exported using nfs. However, I don't know if the rpm database
has been restored to its original self. I did a diff between
/var/lib/rpm/Packages and /var/log/yum.log, and they differ. Am I right
in comparing the two?
I also ran 'up2date --update' and 'yum update' just in case, and while
up2date didn't update anything, yum returned one update, which I thought
normal (it updated ethereal).
Is there anything else I need to do to bring the system back in its
original condition? Maybe reboot it?
Thanks for all the help so far.
Saurabh.
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