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harris4got

10-16-2009 01:57 AM

Rebuilding /var/lib/rpm/Packages

Hello

I found my Fedora 10 system's "/var/lib/rpm/Packages" file got deleted. After running the "rpm --rebuilddb" command, it creates "Packages(12 KB in size) along with three __db.*" files but "rpm -qa" command is not showing any package list.

Is there any way to recreate the "/var/lib/rpm/Packages" from scratch without reinstalling the OS?..

Any help is appreciated.

Forrest Coredump

10-16-2009 08:25 PM

No sweat... Just re-initialize the database (actually build from scratch).

rpm -v --initdb

harris4got

10-18-2009 11:14 PM

Error on rpm -v --initdb

Thanx for the reply but this is what happens on rpm -v --initdb

Code:

# rpm -v --initdb

rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30975)

Forrest Coredump

10-22-2009 11:17 AM

I would blow away your existing db files;

[root@shell]# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

And rebuild the rpm database;

[root@shell]# rpm --rebuilddb

The above should do the trick...

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