[Gllug] Recovering a RH6.2 system with a corrupt RPM database

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:43, John Hearns wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2002, John Winters wrote:
> 
> > One of my customers has a RH 6.2 system on which the RPM database has
> > become corrupted.  Each time any reference to the ppp package is
> > made using the rpm tool, the tool crashes with a segmentation fault.
> > 
> The man page suggests rpm --initdb 

Neither the man page nor "Maximum RPM" is entirely clear on what
--initdb and --rebuilddb are meant to do.  My reading is that --initdb
creates a new, empty database and --rebuilddb tries to re-build the
existing one.  I'm not sure what is meant by re-build - the only thing I
can think of is that it's meant to be like an e2fsck for rpm databases.

Presumably if one builds a new one with --initdb there is no way of then
populating it to match an existing installation.

John

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