While trying to install or query packages, I get this error. ______________________________________________________________________ rpm -qa rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30982) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30982) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm no packages _____________________________________________________________________ Anyone knows how to fix ?? --initdb and --rebuilddb didnt work :-/ -Vivek