database mess up
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Jan 23 02:59:57 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> 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
----
OK - small hard drive is killing you but if this doesn't work...
rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
then your only hope for fixing this would be to follow the instructions
here...
http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery
Craig
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