For help to anyone that needs it, the procedure I followed to check the rpms integrity of my system and restore the missing files is: This filters the missing files/directories and stores them in output.txt, along with some files/directories that may not be missing, but contain the word "missing" in their name. rpm -V --nodeps -qa |grep missing >output.txt Then for any missing file/directory, we perform rpm -qf FILE_OR_DIRECTORY_THAT_IS_MISSING to find the corresponding rpm. We reinstall the corresponding rpm via rpm -ivh --force NAME_OF_RPM