[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

Wed Apr 18 19:25:38 CEST 2012

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+On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> 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
+> 
+OK.  We need to resolve the problem of broken kdm first - remember it
+broke before I deleted anything.  Once we know what needs doing, I'll
+sort that out.  Looking at the list, reinstall might be the fastest
+option, but I don't want to end up in the same place :-)
+
+Anne
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