yum broken

[Spencer Kellis]

(finally) happy to report some success -

for having fried my rpm installation:

/var/lib/rpmrebuild.8xxx contained backups of my original rpm dependencies,
etc. i copied the directory contents of the earliest-dated directory back to
/var/lib/rpm, and everything worked (or actually, didn't work as I described
originally) before.

next I deleted *only* the /var/lib/__db.00x files and ran rpm --rebuilddb.

yum (and rpm) both work now!

thanks again for all the help - i really appreciate it.

spencer

On 10/6/05, Spencer Kellis <spencerkellis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yes, I did do that, but I got the same errors afterwards.
>
> the reason I'm working on rpm is that I downloaded an rpm of rpm, and ran
> rpm -i rpm... to install it and got a list of a bunch of dependencies like
> /bin/bash, /bin/sh, etc. that are obviously installed... so that's why i'm
> trying to fix rpm first.
>
> sorry to chris for the double post - i keep forgetting to reply to the
> list instead of the poster. :)
>
> On 10/6/05, Chris Northwood < chris at animebots.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Spencer Kellis
> > > Sent: 06 October 2005 16:26
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > > Subject: Re: yum broken
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the help so far.
> > >
> > > I ran memtest86 overnight (12 hours WallTime, 30 Tests) and everything
> > > passed fine.
> > >
> > > I deleted the files listed in the "man rpm" page as having to do with
> > the
> > > rpm database (this was basically the /var/log/rpm folder). Referring
> > back
> >
> > > to Rick's email, I noticed he suggested deleting only the __db.00x
> > files.
> >
> > > Oops. :) Anyway, I'm getting a "cannot open/read repomd.xml" from yum,
> > > and guessing it's an rpm problem, so I'm currently tracking that down.
> > > Once I get that rpm up and running again, I'll check to see if this
> > all
> > > has made a difference with yum.
> >
> > Repomd.xml is a Yum file, not an RPM file. Have you tried yum clean all?
> >
> > Chris Northwood.
> >
> > > Spencer
> > On 10/5/05, Rick Stevens < rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 14:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > > At 11:00 AM -0600 10/5/05, Spencer Kellis wrote:
> > >...
> > > >Tony - thanks for the suggestion, and I'll try that as soon as I've
> > got
> > > >the memtest86 figured out.Do you know where the db is located in the
> > > >filesystem to delete (or how to find it)?
> > >
> > > Nope.Hopefully the list is your friend, but if not, Google is your
> > > friend.I think removing the RPM database may have been covered on the
> > > list.
> >
> > If you're talking about the RPM database, it's in in "/var/lib/rpm" and
> > contained in the files "__db.001", "__db.002" and "__db.003".
> >
> > If you're referring to the yum databases, they're in
> > "/var/cache/yum/<repo-name>".
> >
> > That's all contained in the "Files" part of the man pages for rpm and
> > yum."man" is also your friend.In Linux, you have a LOT of friends!
> >
> > > Searching the list archive does not work (though they're working on
> > that);
> > > until then here's a list mirror to search:
> > >
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
> > >
> > > or use Google, but Google isn't as current:
> > >
> > > <search terms> site: www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list
> > <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list>
> >
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