RPM package dependencies

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)]

Do you know why you got a disk write error?  If your disk is in fact 
failing, I would suggest replacing it and reinstalling on the new disk.

You may be able to repair your current installation, but if the disk is 
bad, it's likely to just keep getting worse.

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, jbk wrote:

> I am using gnome desktop on Fedora Core 4. I suffered a disk write error and 
> nautilus will no longer open. I used rpm to verify the installed components 
> of nautilus and found the missing files and replaced them. It still won't 
> start. I then used rpm to list the files it depends on and there was a list 
> of about 20 ".so" and other files. I now have to find out what package each 
> of these dependencies belong and verify their integrity. Is there a way to 
> speed up this process? Has anyone written a script that will verify a package 
> and then all of its dependencies?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jim Kelly-Rand