rpm -Rebuilddb problems

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Naheem Zaffar wrote:

> The plot thickens. If I remove -f i get:
> # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.001*
> rm: cannot lstat `/var/lib/rpm/__db.001*': No such file or directory

thats because they were deleted earlier - as per my earlier instructions.
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*


> 
> # rpm -rebuilddb
> rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: Permission denied
> error: db4 error(13) from dbenv->open: Permission denied
> error: cannot open Packages index

I'm stumped. Other experts on rpm have to answer this one (why
--rebuilddb doesn't work)

For one - you could try the following and see if shows any errors on
installed rpm package:

rpm -V rpm

Satsh