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Missing RPM database [message #34114]

Wed, 03 December 2008 17:22

aab49
Messages: 10
Registered: November 2007
Location: USA

Junior Member

Has anyone ever experienced blank output from "rpm -qa" in a container?

I created a Fedora 10 template using vzpkgcache command and my own metadata list of packages.

Tried "rpm --rebuilddb" to no avail.

OpenVZ kernel is 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.3

[root@f10 /]# rpm -qa

[root@f10 /]# ll /var/lib/rpm
total 11408
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1355776 Nov 25 17:07 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 17:06 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192512 Nov 25 17:07 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1323008 Nov 25 17:07 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 17:07 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 17:07 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 17:07 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8323072 Nov 25 17:07 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90112 Nov 25 17:07 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40960 Nov 25 17:07 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 16:58 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114688 Nov 25 17:07 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Nov 25 17:07 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40960 Nov 25 17:07 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Nov 25 17:07 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 17:07 Triggername

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Re: Missing RPM database [message #35667 is a reply to message #34114]

Mon, 13 April 2009 02:18

burnmage
Messages: 2
Registered: April 2009

Junior Member

Has anyone else seen this and have more info or a fix? I haven't been able to figure it out yet, it seems like the rpm database just disappeared.

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Re: Missing RPM database [message #35672 is a reply to message #35667]

Mon, 13 April 2009 16:10

burnmage
Messages: 2
Registered: April 2009

Junior Member

fwiw, I figured it out with help from irc:

/dev/urandom had somehow been turned into a file instead of a proper device file. I thought I had already checked that, but I must have been in the wrong VE. Once /dev/urandom had been recreated properly, everything worked just fine.

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