[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

[Anne Wilson]

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On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev:
>> On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>>> 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev:
>>>> In desperation I tried "rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*" - I hope I 
>>>> haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to
>>>> have changed.  The database will still not rebuild.
>>>> 
>> 
>>> This part you should _never_ do...
>> 
>>> You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of what is 
>>> installed or not.
>> 
>> OK, apologies.  Doesn't rebuilding the database replace that?
>> 
> 
> Nope, as the info used to rebuild the database is also stored
> there :/
> 
> 
> If you want to restore the database at this point you need to 
> reinstall all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with 
> --replacepkgs
> 
> or do a reinstall
> 
OK.  We need to resolve the problem of broken kdm first - remember it
broke before I deleted anything.  Once we know what needs doing, I'll
sort that out.  Looking at the list, reinstall might be the fastest
option, but I don't want to end up in the same place :-)

Anne
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