Corrupted rpm database - how to fix

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bob Hartung writes:

> Hi all,
>    I had need to remove tomcat5 and install tomcat4 using jpackage.repos 
> & yum.  Now I have rpm db entries for both tomcat4 and tomcat5 when I do 
> an rpm -qa | grep tomcat, but there are no files listed when I do an rpm 
> -ql [package].  Please point me to info on how to get these bad entries 
> out of the db.  rpm --rebuilddb did not work.

Remove the __db* files from /var/lib/rpm and try rpm --rebuilddb again.  And 
if that still doesn't work, you're boned.

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