Re: continued corruption


Subject: Re: continued corruption
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 08:43:18 MDT


On Tuesday 03 July 2001 06:28, you wrote:
> after much fiddling, poking and genrally waiting around to see if my rpm
> databases fixed themselves, they are still corrpted. hmmm mm ,,.
>
> i tried using db_dump + db_load, but end up with just a list (or screenful)
> of numbers.
>
> so, any suggestions on how i could fix this, if rpm --updatedb core dumps,
> and i cant get anything meaningfull from the db utils?

Here's what I did:

copy /home to someplace safe
reinstall from CD.
copy /home from someplace safe or better yet put /home in a separate
partition.



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