Bug 16860
Summary: | rpm utility upgrade breaks the packages database | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | franck.lemonnier |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.2 | ||
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Hardware: | sparc | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-08-24 13:15:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
franck.lemonnier
2000-08-24 13:01:06 UTC
Rpm will be confused if there are two databases on your system. Please check for /var/lib/rpm/Packages /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm If both exist, you have 2 databases. The larger of the 2 is probably the on you want. You say that packages.rpm is 8Mb, instructions below are specific to preserving packages.rpm. 0) Save your database "just in case" cd /var/lib/ tar czvf rpmdb-save.tar.gz rpm You probably also want to save the list of packages that were installed in the db3 database by doing rpm -qa >& /tmp/packages_to_reinstall 1) Remove /var/lib/rpmPackages. rm /var/lib/rpm/Packages 2) Rebuild the database rpm --rebuilddb 3) Verify success by checking a) /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm (and all of /var/lib/rpm/*.rpm) are gone. b) /var/lib/rpm/Packages (and other files starting with capital letters) exist. Packages should be approcimately the same size as the original packages.rpm ~8Mb. c) Check that information can be retrieved rpm -qa rpm -q --whatrequires libc.so.6 You may wish to try other checks. 4) Reinstall the packages listed in /tmp/packages_to_reinstall. If you found *.rpm files in /var/lib/rpm in 3a) above, you should remove them now. This problem appears resolved. Please reopen if not. |