Corrupted rpmdb recovery

[Jim Cornette]

Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> If you know what the missing 900 packages are, I believe enabling the 
>> 8 repos and choosing install instead of upgrade might be your best 
>> answer when going through the list you have. I believe using --force 
>> is not needed.
>> Yum is a dep solver and should pull in the missing from the rpm 
>> database files again. Ii will not know the packages are not installed 
>> so will overwrite your files for non-configuration files. For 
>> configuration files, it will make an .rpmnew or similar named file.
>>
>> Looking at /var/log/rpmpkgs the listings are on one line at a time. 
>> What you could do is run an rpm -qa |sort >~/my-100.rpms and compare 
>> them to the log and manually removing the missed entries or get a diff 
>> between the log and the file that you generated and install the 
>> differences file feeding it to yum install.
>>
>> This is an idea that I think will work for you. I do not know the 
>> specifics if uniq or diff would be your best option to create the 
>> missing 900 list. There are some pretty crafty people on the list who 
>> could explain how to get you your 900 database entries back if by 
>> needing to install alll the packages again, which I'd personally do or 
>> to just reclaim the db entries as you suggested. The mirrors might be 
>> happier if you could just pull down the rpm database entries again.
> 
> Thanks Jim,
> I followed your suggestions and got almost all of the packages back into 
> rpmdb. I made a diff between the old rpmpkgs and the almost empty rpmdb, 
> edited it and removed the common files, then fed it to yum. The result:
> 
> [ovidiu at prometheus ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
> 1002
> 
> Mission accomplished.
> Thanks again to all.
> 

I'm glad that the idea helped you get back the rpm database entries. 
Thanks for reporting back. I hope I never have a problem that needs 900 
plus entries reclaimed. I'm glad the diff between the two files was the 
solution.

Jim

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