Re: continued corruption


Subject: Re: continued corruption
From: n_ki (nik@f0.am)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 08:09:14 MDT


[04.07.2001 ° 10:43 Uhr] Patrick Callahan -->

>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.

this would be fine if i hadnt significantly modified the base install :)



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