[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Wed Apr 18 20:40:54 CEST 2012


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On 18/04/12 18:32, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 18.04.2012 20:25, Anne Wilson skrev:
>> On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> 
>>> 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 :-)
>> 
> 
> Well, if I read your initial mail correctly your system broke when
> the beta2 rpm crashing bug that hit some users, so what happend
> after that is atleast partly a result of that.
> 
Yes - the VirtualBox install recovered from that with help from
diogenes, but the netbook install didn't.

> But if it helps flushing out other bugs at the same time, then it
> was not all bad crash :)
> 
If we gain some knowledge that's always good :-)

> As for reinstall, there is now a brand new beta3 to play with.

I'll wait for Coling to tell me that there's no more sense in staying
with beta2 - IOW nothing more to be gained - then I'll request the url
for beta3, as I understand it's not publicised yet.

Anne
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