database mess up

[Patrick Dupre]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> 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 !!!!!!
> ----
> maybe you don't have enough space yet...
>
> what's output of...
>
> df -h
>
/dev/sdc5             2.9G  1.8G  961M  66% /
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr   6.9G  4.1G  2.5G  63% /usr
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr_lib
                       6.0G  2.0G  3.7G  35% /usr/lib
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr_local
                       5.0G  1.8G  3.0G  38% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/VG1-usr_src
                       5.0G  1.4G  3.4G  29% /usr/src
/dev/mapper/VG1-tmp   2.0G  263M  1.7G  14% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VG1-home  8.9G  4.9G  3.6G  58% /home
/dev/mapper/VG1-iso_image



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