-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: > 18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev: >> On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: >>> 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev: >>>> In desperation I tried "rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/*" - I hope I >>>> haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to >>>> have changed. The database will still not rebuild. >>>> >> >>> This part you should _never_ do... >> >>> You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of what is >>> installed or not. >> >> OK, apologies. Doesn't rebuilding the database replace that? >> > > Nope, as the info used to rebuild the database is also stored > there :/ > > > If you want to restore the database at this point you need to > reinstall all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with > --replacepkgs > > or do a reinstall > OK. We need to resolve the problem of broken kdm first - remember it broke before I deleted anything. Once we know what needs doing, I'll sort that out. Looking at the list, reinstall might be the fastest option, but I don't want to end up in the same place :-)
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