RPM is totally fubar'd after hitting some kind of time-warp?

[KSC]

Whoa... That is weird...

After installing 0.94, everything seemed peachy. I then installed
various packages via yum, and compiled additional src.rpms. Proceeded
to build vanilla 2.6.0-test6 and the nvidia module.

Everything still good to go.

Recompiled the kernel again as I forgot netatalk support and rebooted.

Went to do a yum update and yum bombs out with python errors and a
message saying that /var/cache/yum/<some-file> didn't exist.

Lo and behold, the /var/cache/yum directory didn't even exist.

Created the directory to see what that would get me, and then I notice
that yum reported 404 errors due to it believing $releasever is 9.0.93

Ran up2date and it also thought the system was 9.0.93.

cat /etc/redhat-release reports Fedora Core release 0.94 (Severn)

rpm -q redhat-release reported not-installed. So I did a rpm --rebuilddb

rpm now reports redhat-release-9.0.93-4. What?

It is reporting all kinds of old 9.0.93 packages, although the new
packages are installed, and during 0.94 install, I told it to format
everything but my separate /home partition.

Seeing as how it was far from a stock 0.94 install, I don't expect any
help, and certainly couldn't file a bug report, but I thought I would
send it to the list to see if anyone has experienced anything of the
sort.

How the heck did it pull 9.0.93 packages out of its butt when the
partitions were supposedly formatted? Hit a glitch in the space-time
continuum?

I won't have time to reinstall until this weekend. :( Keeping my fingers
crossed that she holds together until then...

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:42, KSC wrote:
>  Whoa... That is weird...
>  
>  After installing 0.94, everything seemed peachy. I then installed
>  various packages via yum, and compiled additional src.rpms. Proceeded
>  to build vanilla 2.6.0-test6 and the nvidia module.
>  
>  Everything still good to go.
>  
>  Recompiled the kernel again as I forgot netatalk support and rebooted.
>  
>  Went to do a yum update and yum bombs out with python errors and a
>  message saying that /var/cache/yum/<some-file> didn't exist.
>  
>  Lo and behold, the /var/cache/yum directory didn't even exist. 
umm. This is bad.

this is really bad.

Are you sure you're not losing any other random bits on this system?

-sv

[KSC]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:46:59 -0400
seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu&gt; wrote:

>  umm. This is bad.
>  
>  this is really bad.
>  
>  Are you sure you're not losing any other random bits on this system?
>  
>  -sv 
Nope. Not sure at all. 

I _think_ I see what happened, but I don't know for sure. My entire /var
was replaced with the /var from the old 9.0.93 days.

I was almost positive (apparently not the case) that I had told 0.94
that /var was on a different partition. It appears as though I didn't.
So the partition was never formatted, and apparently some point before
that last reboot, I copied over fstab with my old one to avoid hand
entering all of my customizations, and am now booting with 9.0.93's
/var. <banging head on desk--hard>

Sorry to bother y'all. I shall return to my rightful place under
my rock.

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, KSC wrote:

>  On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:46:59 -0400
>  seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > umm. This is bad.
>  > 
>  > this is really bad.
>  > 
>  > Are you sure you're not losing any other random bits on this system?
>  > 
>  > -sv
>  
>  Nope. Not sure at all. 
>  
>  I _think_ I see what happened, but I don't know for sure. My entire /var
>  was replaced with the /var from the old 9.0.93 days.
>  
>  I was almost positive (apparently not the case) that I had told 0.94
>  that /var was on a different partition. It appears as though I didn't.
>  So the partition was never formatted, and apparently some point before
>  that last reboot, I copied over fstab with my old one to avoid hand
>  entering all of my customizations, and am now booting with 9.0.93's
>  /var. <banging head on desk--hard> 
Yeah, that's the other idea I had after sending my previous email, that
the wrong partitions were being mounted.  Sorry Seth for mistakenly
blaming yum.  :-)

>  Sorry to bother y'all. I shall return to my rightful place under
>  my rock. 
Not a problem, it was an interesting question.

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[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, KSC wrote:

>  Whoa... That is weird...
>  
>  After installing 0.94, everything seemed peachy. I then installed
>  various packages via yum, and compiled additional src.rpms. Proceeded
>  to build vanilla 2.6.0-test6 and the nvidia module. 
>  Created the directory to see what that would get me, and then I
> notice
>  that yum reported 404 errors due to it believing $releasever is 9.0.93
>  
>  Ran up2date and it also thought the system was 9.0.93.
>  
>  cat /etc/redhat-release reports Fedora Core release 0.94 (Severn)
>  
>  rpm -q redhat-release reported not-installed. So I did a rpm --rebuilddb
>  
>  rpm now reports redhat-release-9.0.93-4. What?
>  
>  It is reporting all kinds of old 9.0.93 packages, although the new
>  packages are installed, and during 0.94 install, I told it to format
>  everything but my separate /home partition.
>  
>  How the heck did it pull 9.0.93 packages out of its butt when the
>  partitions were supposedly formatted? Hit a glitch in the space-time
>  continuum? 
Is your yum configuration file, /etc/yum.conf, set up correctly?  Perhaps 
it is listing a 9.0.93 repository.  This could explain why you're getting 
packages mixed from both versions. 

--Jeremy

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[KSC]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:04:56 -0400 (EDT)
Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote:
>  Is your yum configuration file, /etc/yum.conf, set up correctly? 
>  Perhaps it is listing a 9.0.93 repository.  This could explain why
>  you're getting packages mixed from both versions. 
>  
>  --Jeremy 
It was set up with all directories using $releasever. No
mention of 9.0.93 anywhere. It worked fine several times before the
last fateful reboot. There aren't mixed packages. Just a mixed-up rpm
database, and disappearing diretories.

It's possessed, I tell ya.

[Lamar Owen]

On Monday 29 September 2003 10:42 pm, KSC wrote:
>  Created the directory to see what that would get me, and then I
> notice
>  that yum reported 404 errors due to it believing $releasever is 9.0.93 
>  Ran up2date and it also thought the system was 9.0.93. 
What does 'rpm -qi comps' say?
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