[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

Wed Apr 18 22:03:59 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 19:40 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 18/04/12 18:32, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> 18.04.2012 20:25, Anne Wilson skrev:
+>>> On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>>>
+>>>> 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 :-)
+>>>
+> 
+>> Well, if I read your initial mail correctly your system broke when
+>> the beta2 rpm crashing bug that hit some users, so what happend
+>> after that is atleast partly a result of that.
+> 
+> Yes - the VirtualBox install recovered from that with help from
+> diogenes, but the netbook install didn't.
+> 
+>> But if it helps flushing out other bugs at the same time, then it
+>> was not all bad crash :)
+> 
+> If we gain some knowledge that's always good :-)
+> 
+>> As for reinstall, there is now a brand new beta3 to play with.
+> 
+> I'll wait for Coling to tell me that there's no more sense in staying
+> with beta2 - IOW nothing more to be gained - then I'll request the url
+> for beta3, as I understand it's not publicised yet.
+
+Yeah I don't think there is much more to gain here... ultimately it was
+a KDM problem related to some Qt libraries. I suspect that without any
+RPM info we can't really work things out.
+
+There is a good chance that a beta3 install will "Just Work"(tm) so lets
+hope for that and cross any failures there as we come across them :)
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
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