How about the status for the /bin/rpm itself, is it been changed recently? Anyway, I would try to <a href="http://planet.admon.org/howto/rpm-common-usage-examples/">re-build the rpm database</a>, though it's not clearly indicated as a rpm DB issue. Good luck! <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Fred <<a href="mailto:mamatec-ml@mamatec.com">mamatec-ml@mamatec.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi all I have a 2 nodes redhat cluster. The redhat release is " Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 8)". It seems that rpm does not work on the first node. For example: if I launch a query to the rpm database does not show anything I try to rebuild the rpmdb (rpm ---rebuilddb) but seems not to work If I run rpm -Vvv rpm this is the output: # rpm -Vvv rpm D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0 package rpm is not installed D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages any idea? -- redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list <a href="mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com">redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Sponser and operater: Linux monitoring solution: <a href="http://admon.org">http://admon.org</a>