Corrupt rpm database

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:45:07AM +1100, Peter Barker wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > I seem to have a corrupt rpm database.  Unfortunately:
> > 
> > # rpm -v --rebuilddb
> > error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #99 retrieved, skipping.
> 
> Yep, that looks bad.
> 
> > Is there anything else I can try, or am I just seriously screwed?
> 
> Try to get a list of any sort from the rpmdb. strings on
> /var/lib/rpms/Packages may get you one. rpm may be able to pull that out
> of a damaged db.
> 
> move the old rpm database out of the way. Initialise a new database.

With rpm --initdb.

> Install (saying "database only" (option to rpm)) all of the packages
> again.

"rpm -i --justdb <package>" IIRC.

Figuring out exactly which packages you had installed is left as an
exercise.

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