rpm database problem

varunbihani · 06-02-2004, 08:31 PM

I am getting this error on RH9.0:

dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Pubkeys" ignored
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)

What should I do

kilgoretrout · 06-02-2004, 09:59 PM

The first thing to do is try and rebuild the rpm database. Open a console and run:

$ su
<enter root password>
# rpm -rebuilddb

varunbihani · 06-02-2004, 11:53 PM

I have already did that but for no success...
also tried rpm --initdb
no success

Please help

kilgoretrout · 06-03-2004, 09:22 AM

Try this as root:

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* && rpm --initdb && rpm --rebuilddb

This command should remove the corrupted db files an rebuild the db.

varunbihani · 06-03-2004, 09:47 AM

i have already tried this
no success