Description of problem: rpm -qa only shows 71 packages are installed on this system, which does not seem to be correct. Removed *db* from /var/lib/rpm directory and rebuild database using rpm --rebuilddb. rpm -qa still returns with 71 packages. Tried /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_loadcvt, got the following: Converting to db-4.1.25 compatible format (1-10 minutes per file) ... /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Group: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order) /var/lib/rpm/Installtid: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Name: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order) /var/lib/rpm/Packages: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Packages-ORIG: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order) /var/lib/rpm/Providename: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Requirename: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) /var/lib/rpm/Sha1header: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/Sigmd5: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte-order) /var/lib/rpm/Triggername: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, native byte- order) /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: can't stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.001' (No such file or directory). db_dump: open: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: No such file or directory /bin/mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.001': No such file or directory /bin/mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.001-N': No such file or directory /var/lib/rpm/__db.002: can't stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.002' (No such file or directory). db_dump: open: /var/lib/rpm/__db.002: No such file or directory /bin/mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.002': No such file or directory /bin/mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.002-N': No such file or directory /var/lib/rpm/__db.003: can't stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.003' (No such file or directory). db_dump: open: /var/lib/rpm/__db.003: No such file or directory /bin/mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.003': No such file or directory /bin/mv: cannot stat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.003-N': No such file or directory Done! Please help. Thanks. Cindy Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm /var/lib/rpm/*db* 2. rpm -vv --rebuilddb 3. rpm -qa Actual results: rpm -qa returns with same number of packages installed as before performing the steps. Expected results: rpm database should rebuild with correct number of packages that are actually installed on this system. Additional info:
I see no "corruption" in your report. I do see that there appear to be only 71 packages installed. I have no idea why you blame that on "corruption". I'd guess that 71 packages should be approx a 3-5 MB /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. Verify by doing ls -l /var/lib/rpm/Packages If the file size is less than 10 MB, then there are probably, indeed, only 71 packages there. rpmdb_loadcvt is probably not the tool you need. Look at /var/log/rpmpkgs*, that is a log file that should contain what packages were installed. Download and reinstall packages that you are missing will fix.
The system originally has more than 400 packages installed. One day while I tried to run rpm -qa, it returned back with only 71 packages. I tried to rebuild the rpm database and only 71 packages got to the databases. Compares between the two rpmpkgs* files, there is a huge difference on the numbers. st-lnx08.peoplesoft.com:# cat rpmpkgs |wc -l 71 st-lnx08.peoplesoft.com:# cat rpmpkgs.4 | wc -l 494 st-lnx08.peoplesoft.com:# ls -ld rpmpkgs rpmpkgs.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2098 Aug 10 04:02 rpmpkgs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13913 Jul 17 04:02 rpmpkgs.4 I certainly hope this is not a bug and there is a fix for it. If you know of any resolutions to fix this problem, it will be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me if there are any questions or further information is required. Regards, Cindy
I found the following to re-create rpm db: cd /var/lib mv rpm rpm-ORIG mkdir rpm rpm --initdb for pkg in <list of packages here> do rpm -i --justdb --noscripts --notriggers --nodeps $pkg done When I tried the steps, I am getting: error: open of zsh-4.0.7-1.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory Anything I have done incorrectly? Can you help? Thank you very much for your time. Regards, Cindy