my whole list of rpm gone?

[topgunmike]

can someone tell me how to reinstall or fix my rpm package list, it is suddenly blank, i've tried everything i could in my whm, and all the ssh commands listed on the subject in the community, and did a manual update via cpanel stable tree.
i just can't seem to get the list back, can someone please advise me.
thanx in advance

 

[shashank]

Hello,

Does rpm -qa and yum list or up2date -l work on your server? Your post does not give out much information but your rpmdb or yum may be corrupt here.

 

[topgunmike]

i'm not to fimiliar at all with the ssh yet, and know few commands, i posted an IMAGE of what i see when i click on Install an RPM,
the above command you specified brought this result;

/etc/logrotate.d/yum
/etc/yum
/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d
/usr/bin/yum
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/oldUtils.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/oldUtils.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/oldUtils.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/updates.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/updates.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpmUtils/updates.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/Errors.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/Errors.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/Errors.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/callbacks.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/callbacks.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/callbacks.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/comps.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/comps.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/comps.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/constants.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/constants.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/constants.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/failover.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/failover.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/failover.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/mdparser.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/mdparser.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/mdparser.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/misc.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/misc.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/misc.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/parser.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/parser.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/parser.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/pgpmsg.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/pgpmsg.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/pgpmsg.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/update_md.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/update_md.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/update_md.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.pyo
/usr/lib/yum-plugins
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8/README
/usr/share/doc/yum-3.2.8/TODO
/usr/share/man/man5/yum.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/yum-shell.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/yum.8.gz
/usr/share/yum-cli
/usr/share/yum-cli/callback.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/callback.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/callback.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/output.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/output.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/progress_meter.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/progress_meter.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/progress_meter.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/shell.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/shell.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/shell.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/translate.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/translate.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/translate.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/utils.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/utils.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/utils.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.pyo
/usr/share/yum-cli/yumupd.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/yumupd.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/yumupd.pyo
/var/cache/yum
/var/lib/yum

 

[edasx]

i am currently experiencing the same issue with brand new rhel5/cpanel server from theplanet. I think it's related with this:

root@miranda [~/incoming/]# yum install
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:00
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

now looking for solution on this forum.

from what i tried: i tried to clean up cache, remove the cache dir, but that did not help. other suggested method is to remove a package called fastmirror (or something like that), but that's not possible, since yum fails. other solution (for different OS!!!) is here http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2005-May/013041.html - but did not yet find the correct urls for redhat 5.2 yet...