[SOLVED] Centos 5 Error :- -bash: yum: command not found

Satyaveer Arya · 04-18-2012, 03:50 AM

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See i have another machine which has the same centos version.
Can i move some files from there and paste it here?

Did you try to install the rpms through GUI window, graphically?

sachinsud · 04-18-2012, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Satyaveer Arya

Did you try to install the rpms through GUI window, graphically?

Nope i have not installed GUI on the server

deep27ak · 04-19-2012, 02:19 AM

It seems there has been a long discussion on installation of yum.

If possible go through this link sachinsud and follow the steps

how-to-reinstall-rpm-and-yum-without-rpm-and-yum-in-centosrhel

sachinsud · 04-19-2012, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by deep27ak

It seems there has been a long discussion on installation of yum.

If possible go through this link sachinsud and follow the steps

how-to-reinstall-rpm-and-yum-without-rpm-and-yum-in-centosrhel

Thanks !
I have another system which i executed

rpm2cpio rpm-4.4.2.3-27.el5.src.rpm | cpio -dim
and then the files which got extracted i moved them into the damaged centos os which i am trying to fix.

Now when i do this
i get this error

[root@HYD1008 1]# find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
[root@HYD1008 1]# tar cf - ./usr ./etc ./bin | (cd /; tar xvf -)
tar: ./usr: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: ./etc: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: ./bin: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Satyaveer Arya · 04-19-2012, 08:58 AM

The error clearly shows that usr, etc and bin directories are not there.

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rpm2cpio rpm-4.4.2.3-27.el5.src.rpm | cpio -dim

Did this command exectuted successfully? Did this command extracted the files there?

sachinsud · 04-19-2012, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Satyaveer Arya

The error clearly shows that usr, etc and bin directories are not there.

Did this command exectuted successfully? Did this command extracted the files there?

root@HYD1008 1]# rpm2cpio rpm-4.4.2.3-27.el5.src.rpm | cpio -dim
-bash: /usr/bin/rpm2cpio: Permission denied
cpio: premature end of archive

sachinsud · 04-20-2012, 02:03 PM

Please close this thread as the issue i am facing is still unresolved so
i am gong for clean install next month,

Thanks Everyone

Satyaveer Arya · 04-22-2012, 03:48 AM

Rather than closing this thread, you can just mark it as SOLVED.

Satyaveer Arya · 04-22-2012, 10:12 PM

Hi Sachin,

I discussed the issue with senior engineer. If both "yum" and "rpm" packages are removed from the system then, its very hard to recover and in some cases not possible. To install any package on the system you must have either "yum" command or at-least "rpm" command. But from issue description it seems to be both commands are missing. It might be possible that, some essential files have deleted. To proceed further, please provide us output of following commands:

Code:

# cat /etc/redhat-release
# rpm -q centos-release
# uname -a
# ldd /bin/rpm
# file /bin/rpm
# find / -name librpm-* -type f
# ls -l /usr/lib|grep -i librpm-*
# ls -l /usr/lib64|grep -i librpm-*

Satyaveer Arya · 04-23-2012, 04:56 AM

Sachin,

Can you please give me the output of these commands,

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# cat /etc/redhat-release
# rpm -q centos-release
# uname -a
# ldd /bin/rpm
# file /bin/rpm
# find / -name librpm-* -type f
# ls -l /usr/lib|grep -i librpm-*
# ls -l /usr/lib64|grep -i librpm-*

sachinsud · 04-23-2012, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Satyaveer Arya

Sachin,

Can you please give me the output of these commands,

Sure,

My machine has come under DDOS attack and the data center has shut it down.
He will start the machine day after and then i will check and update it.

Thanks Anyways

JT959 · 06-21-2012, 07:41 PM

Had the same problem.
Yum removed python on one of the development servers.
Now I have no bash commands.

Are there any ways to restore the bash commands first?