<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> The problem is not with RPM or corruption I think but more that the kernel is opening (trying to anyway) the DB file with O_DIRECT : stat64("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_DIRECT|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 I think this because it works with LD_ASSUME ( as show in original email ). I'm thinking I need to upgrade some library to allow this call to succeed but I don't know what. On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:52, Mads Villadsen wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 08:19, Naoki wrote: > During a manual upgrade from RH9 -> FC1 ( rpm -Uvh by hand ) I've > managed to kill me rpm in the process. Don't know how because I've > done this before but I did reboot half way through in order for the > new 2140 kernel. Try looking at this page: <A HREF="http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/">http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>