On 10/13/2011 01:30 AM, Bojan Smojver wrote:
This is probably not worthy of a bug report, but may still be useful
to
confirm a problem that someone else may have experienced.
I resurrected an old notebook (HP Pavilion ZE4201) to test some stuff
under relatively low memory conditions (768 MB on the box). Installed
F-16 Beta i686 onto it with no trouble whatsoever.
On first boot, went to update the system, only to get RPM errors of
database in /var/lib/rpm needing recovery. The recovery (db_recover
-h /var/lib/rpm) completely shot the database and after running rpm
--rebuilddb the system was left in a state where vast number of packages
are not being reported (including rpm itself). Out of about 1,400
packages, only 400 were left in the DB.
In case you (or anybody else for that matter) manage to reproduce this,
please take a copy of the exact error messages and backup /var/lib/rpm
contents before attempting any kind of recovery. "It gave a bunch of
errors and recovery blew it up" is not sufficient information to attempt
analyzing what went wrong.
- Panu -