Originally posted by: t_tran

During our installation of rpm.rte v 4.9 we "lost" entries in the rpm db.

Some applications reported missing rpms although the binaries were untouched.

Is there a way to recover those rpm entries in the rpm db ?

Originally posted by: sangameshm

Hi Tran,

Mostly failure would have been caused by the incompatibilities with rpms from some other source.

We would still be having old rpm database files(*.rpm) in /usr/opt/freeware/packages which we can read it with older rpm.

Could you paste the any error you have ?

Also you can look at the  files present in /tmp/tmprpm and see what could be wrong.

/tmp/tmprpm - Contains a build log for the virtual packages built something like mkvirtpkg.ragent-*.out.  This files gives some idea where in the build process has failed.
                       Contains a directory virtuals and rpmdir.

/tmp/tmprpm/virtuals - Contains a spec file created.
/tmp/tmprpm/rpmdir - Contains a rebuilt virtual rpm packages if build was successful.

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: t_tran

It is one of the application called ragent that is missing

cat mkvirtpkg.ragent-12.0.0-1084.2099462.out
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/opt/freeware/tmp/rpm-tmp.16819
+ umask 022
+ cd /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/opt/freeware/tmp/rpm-tmp.16819
+ umask 022
+ cd /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/opt/freeware/tmp/rpm-tmp.16819
+ umask 022
+ cd /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD
+ exit 0
Processing files: ragent-12.0.0-1084
File not found: /opt/imperva/ragent/etc/asmp_defaults/agent_factory_content.xml
File not found: /opt/imperva/ragent/etc/asmp_defaults/asmp-metadata.xml
File not found: /opt/imperva/ragent/etc/asmp_defaults/kabi.txt
File not found: /opt/imperva/ragent/etc/asmp_defaults/usmDictionary.xml
Provides: aso_dso_v1_12_0_0_1084.so
PreReq: /bin/sh
Requires: /bin/sh libC.a(ansi_32.o) libC.a(shr.o) libC.a(shr2.o) libC.a(shr3.o) libc.a(shr.o) libperfstat.a(shr.o) libpthreads.a(shr_comm.o) libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o) unix

The rpm didn't build correctly as it is not present in /tmp/tmprpm/rpmdir

Could we recover the entry from the old rpm db and update it in the new one ?

Originally posted by: sangameshm

There are some ways. Will get back to you on the options in 1 or 2 days.

In-between, we don't have only ragent in newer database or all other rpm packages entries missing ?

Thanks,

Sangamesh

Originally posted by: t_tran

Only the ragent is missing, it might be a bug, we are unsure about the root cause.

Originally posted by: t_tran

Hello, could you please come back to us about this issue ? this is blocking upgrades on our production servers as the ragent is deployed there.