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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Wed Apr 18 19:25:38 CEST 2012</I>
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On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
><i> 18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev:
</I>>><i> On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote:
</I>>>><i> 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev:
</I>>>>><i> In desperation I tried "rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*" - I hope I
</I>>>>><i> haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to
</I>>>>><i> have changed. The database will still not rebuild.
</I>>>>><i>
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</I>>>><i> This part you should _never_ do...
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</I>>>><i> You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of what is
</I>>>><i> installed or not.
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</I>>><i> OK, apologies. Doesn't rebuilding the database replace that?
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</I>><i> Nope, as the info used to rebuild the database is also stored
</I>><i> there :/
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</I>><i> If you want to restore the database at this point you need to
</I>><i> reinstall all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with
</I>><i> --replacepkgs
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</I>><i> or do a reinstall
</I>><i>
</I>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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