On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:40 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I installed CentOS 3.4 from a CD image I'd burned a while ago, and > then attempted to update with yum to 3.7. I have done the exact thing form 3.4 to 3.7 w/out issue. Not sure what caused it in this case. > All the packages installed > OK, but at the very end of final cleanup I got an error message from > db4 saying to "RUN RECOVERY". > > I did "rpm --rebuilddb" which may have been the wrong thing -- it > issued an error about "pages missing". I then ran it again, and it > came back with no errors, but after rebooting (for the kernel update) > "rpm -qa" lists only a dozen packages or so, of which "rpm" is not > one, and "yum check-update" chokes, showing Null for $releasever and > the empty string for $basearch. I would try reinstalling CentOS-release and see how that goes. > > This was a brand-new system, so I'm thinking I'll just download the > 3.7 ISOs and re-install, but on the off chance there's some other way > to recover from this I thought I'd ask. There doesn't seem to be > anything missing other than a large chunk of the RPM database itself. You can try rebuilding the database again ... and then if there are any other issues, I would just reinstall 3.7. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060707/88e59c43/attachment-0005.sig>