https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244513
Bug ID: 1244513 Summary: dnf rebuild --what to do to recover from database crash Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Component: system-administrator's-guide Severity: high Assignee: swadeley@redhat.com Reporter: lsatenstein@yahoo.com QA Contact: docs-qa@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: swadeley@redhat.com
Description of problem:
Part way through dnf update the application emitted an error message along with instructions to perform a dnf rebuild.
dnf rebuild is not in the man pages, or in Fedora Documents that I looked at.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Random or when dnf encounters a database inconsistancy
Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Actual results:
No information within Fedora documentation. Found information on the web
Expected results:
dnf rebuild should be part of the internal dnf options and should also be included in the man/info pages.
Additional info:
Found this information on the web...
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rebuilding-corrupted-rpm-database.html
rm -rf /var
# cd /var/lib # rm __db*
Rebuild RPM database: # rpm --rebuilddb # rpmdb_verify Packages