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[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

+ Thomas Backlund + tmb at mageia.org +
+ Wed Apr 18 18:58:55 CEST 2012 +

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+ +
18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev:
+> On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev:
+>>> In desperation I tried "rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*" - I hope I
+>>> haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have
+>>> changed.  The database will still not rebuild.
+>>>
+> 
+>> This part you should _never_ do...
+> 
+>> You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of what is
+>> installed or not.
+> 
+> OK, apologies.  Doesn't rebuilding the database replace that?
+> 
+
+Nope, as the info used to rebuild the database is also stored there :/
+
+
+If you want to restore the database at this point you need to reinstall
+all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with --replacepkgs
+
+or do a reinstall
+
+--
+Thomas
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