database mess up

[Patrick Dupre]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 01:00 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up.
>>>> rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially.
>>>> The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them.
>>>> How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ?
>>>
>>> Find the latest intact /var/log/rpmpkgs* file (ie one that got generated
>>> before the db got corrupted, file size should be a good indicator) and copy
>>> it somewhere safe, say /root/rpmpkgs.backup. Now you should be able to make
>>> fairly good recovery with something like:
>>>
>>> # mv /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.busted
>>> # mkdir /var/tmp/download; cd /var/tmp/download
>>> # yumdownloader `sed -e "s/.rpm$//g" /root/rpmpkgs.backup`
>>> # rpm -Uvh --notriggers --noscripts --justdb *.rpm
>>>
>>> The question of course is, what got the database corrupted to begin with.
>>> Did anything out of the ordinary happen at that time, like /var getting full?
>>> Segfaults logged in /var/log/messages*? What filesystem is /var on?
>>>
>>> 	- Panu -
>> It just end up with disk full !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> ----
> you have to fix that - there's no way you can have a working software
> package system with a full disk - it just gets corrupted.
>
Of course, I did it !!!!!!
>

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