On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:20 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:37:55PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, recovering from such kind of breakage is non-trivial and > > often impossible ... > > Is it? The repairdb page on rpm.org has always worked for me. > http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ If you're lucky you can get away with it. If you're even more lucky, the fix is to remove all gpg-key*'s from the db, the run rpm --rebuilddb and to re-import the gpg-keys (There had been a time when rpm screwed up badly on gpg-keys, some user might have inherited this problem from this time.) If you're even yet more lucky, an "rpm --rebuilddb" helps. If you're less lucky, your rpmdb is hosed in unrecoverable ways. And if all goes wrong the file system or the hard disk underneath are damaged. Except of the HW-failure case, I've seen all cases happening. Ralf
