rebuild rpm fails

vdx · 06-22-2011, 07:13 AM

Dear ones,

I using CentOS-5.5 and having problem with rpm command.
rpm -qa does not display anything.
rpm --rebuilddb does not reply anything. If i put -vv option it display below contents.

Quote:

[root@kbuilder ~]# rpm -vv --rebuilddb
D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713
D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713
D: opening old database with dbapi 3
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening new database with dbapi 3
D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713/Packages create:mpool
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713/Packages create mode=0x42
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713/Packages
D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713/Packages
D: removing directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.2713
D: May free Score board((nil))

I am not able install any rpm archive. There is only a single file Packages in /var/lib/rpm/ directory.

I have tries rpm --initdb but failed.

What should I do ?

kbp · 06-22-2011, 07:36 AM

Quote:

There is only a single file Packages in /var/lib/rpm/ directory

.. sounds bad. You'll probably need to reinstall rpm itself by booting on install media into rescue mode then 'rpm -Uvh --root /mnt/sysimage <path_to_packages>/rpm-*' .. you may need '--force' if it complains.