Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 16860
rpm utility upgrade breaks the packages database
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:58 EDT
Hi, Following your advices, I've tried to upgrade the rpm utility with the following components : - rpm-4.0-0.67.6x - rpm-build-4.0-0.67.6x - rpm-devel-4.0-0.67.6x - rpm-python-4.0-0.67.6x - popt-1.6-0.67.6x For doing this, I use "rpm -Fvh popt-1.6-0.67.6x" first and "rpm -Fvh rpm- 4.0-0.67.6x rpm-build-4.0-0.67.6x rpm-devel-4.0-0.67.6x rpm-python-4.0- 0.67.6x" after. All seems ok but when I try "rpm -qa", nothing appears. So, I make a "rpm --rebuilddb" to reconstruct the db but nothing happens. I go in the /var/lib/rpm directory and all seems te be here (I have an 8 Mb 'packages.rpm' file). rpm doesn't see any packages in my system. What can I do ? Best regards. Franck LEMONNIER.
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.