(finally) happy to report some success - <br>
<br>
for having fried my rpm installation:<br>
<br>
/var/lib/rpmrebuild.8xxx contained backups of my original rpm
dependencies, etc. i copied the directory contents of the
earliest-dated directory back to /var/lib/rpm, and everything worked
(or actually, didn't work as I described originally) before.<br>
<br>
next I deleted *only* the /var/lib/__db.00x files and ran rpm --rebuilddb.<br>
<br>
yum (and rpm) both work now!<br>
<br>
thanks again for all the help - i really appreciate it.<br>
<br>
spencer<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Spencer Kellis</b> <<a href="mailto:spencerkellis@gmail.com">spencerkellis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">yes, I did do that, but I got the same errors afterwards.<br>
<br>
the reason I'm working on rpm is that I downloaded an rpm of rpm, and
ran rpm -i rpm... to install it and got a list of a bunch of
dependencies like /bin/bash, /bin/sh, etc. that are obviously
installed... so that's why i'm trying to fix rpm first.<br>
<br></span>
sorry to chris for the double post - i keep forgetting to reply to the list instead of the poster. :)<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Northwood</b> <
<a href="mailto:chris@animebots.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
chris@animebots.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span></span><div><span class="e" id="q_106c6b18b6046d87_3"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> From: <a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:fedora-list-" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list-</a><br>> <a href="mailto:bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Spencer Kellis<br>> Sent: 06 October 2005 16:26
<br>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases<br>> Subject: Re: yum broken<br>><br>> Thanks for all the help so far.<br>><br>> I ran memtest86 overnight (12 hours WallTime, 30 Tests) and everything<br>> passed fine.
<br>><br>> I deleted the files listed in the "man rpm" page as having to do with the<br>> rpm database (this was basically the /var/log/rpm folder). Referring back<br><br>> to Rick's email, I noticed he suggested deleting only the __db.00x files.
<br><br>> Oops. :) Anyway, I'm getting a "cannot open/read repomd.xml" from yum,<br>> and guessing it's an rpm problem, so I'm currently tracking that down.<br>> Once I get that rpm up and running again, I'll check to see if this all
<br>> has made a difference with yum.<br><br>Repomd.xml is a Yum file, not an RPM file. Have you tried yum clean all?<br><br>Chris Northwood.<br><br>> Spencer<br>On 10/5/05, Rick Stevens <<a href="mailto:rstevens@vitalstream.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
rstevens@vitalstream.com</a>> wrote:<br>On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 14:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:<br>> At 11:00 AM -0600 10/5/05, Spencer Kellis wrote:<br>>...<br>> >Tony - thanks for the suggestion, and I'll try that as soon as I've got
<br>> >the memtest86 figured out.Do you know where the db is located in the<br>> >filesystem to delete (or how to find it)?<br>><br>> Nope.Hopefully the list is your friend, but if not, Google is your<br>
> friend.I think removing the RPM database may have been covered on the<br>> list.<br><br>If you're talking about the RPM database, it's in in "/var/lib/rpm" and<br>contained in the files "__db.001", "__db.002" and "__db.003".
<br><br>If you're referring to the yum databases, they're in<br>"/var/cache/yum/<repo-name>".<br><br>That's all contained in the "Files" part of the man pages for rpm and<br>yum."man" is also your
friend.In Linux, you have a LOT of friends!<br><br>> Searching the list archive does not work (though they're working on that);<br>> until then here's a list mirror to search:<br>><br>> <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2</a><br>><br>> or use Google, but Google isn't as current:<br>><br>> <search terms> site: <a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list
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