Dumb Linux trick:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suspicious of damaged system files on an RHEL-like (rocky, alma, centos, probably fedora, whatever) system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once you get it unfucked enough to use the package manager (dealing with filesystem problems, hand-re-installing the rpms required to make dnf work, etc.) , systematically reinstall all installed packages! and settle in for a long operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve done it on Arch boxes where it is written as something like Dumb Linux trick: Suspicious of damaged system files on an RHEL-like (rocky, alma, centos, probably fedora, whatever) system? Once you get it unfucked enough to use the package manager (dealing with filesystem problems, hand-re-installing the rpms required to make dnf … Continue reading
As root do a: rpm -qa --queryformat \"%{NAME}\\n\" > installed.txt<\/code>dnf reinstall $(<installed.txt)<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\npacman -Qqn | pacman -S -<\/code>, but hadn’t tried it with dnf until I had a Rocky 8 box wedge during a dnf upgrade<\/code> yesterday and wipe out large pieces of the system, then cause some damage to the (annoying default XFS on LVM) root when a reboot failed. It seems to have worked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"