rpm problem

[Mike Thatcher]

forgot to add that I tried rpm --rebuilddb and got similar problem

 >rpm --rebuilddb
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index


Mike Thatcher wrote:
> can any one tell me about the following problem and how to recover
> 
>  >rpm -qa | grep samba
> rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30978) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
> run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30978)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>