Check RPM database?
pritam ghanghas
lists4pghanghas at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 11:44:11 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 19:29 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 6:53 PM -0500 11/15/06, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >Content-Type: multipart/signed;
> > boundary="=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-28222-1163634835-0005";
> > micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
> >
> >Tony Nelson writes:
> >
> >> Is there a way to check the RPM database for validity? I know how to
> >> rebuild it, and where it is stored, and that when yum says that the
> >> database is corrupt that I must do something about it, but is there a way
> >> to test it before total failure?
> >
> >Well, "rpm -q -a -V" is going to go and read pretty much all the bits in the
> >rpm database. If something's busted, you're likely going to hit it.
>
> rpm -Va checks the possibly corrupt database's opinion of the filesystem,
> and may be considered a check on the database's accuracy. If RPM doesn't
> crash while doing it, nothing much is proved about its validity.
>
> Is there a tool or command to check the RPM database for being corrupt?
> --
> ____________________________________________________________________
> TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
There are a lot of tools in /usr/lib/rpm/
they are supposed to be called by passing various options to rpm itself.
But you can use them directly as well. In your case you could use
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify
you have to give this command the name of the db file to verify.
--
Thanx
Pritam Ghanghas
More information about the users
mailing list