[FC4]: both RPM and YUM crash with errors on FC4 after upgrade.

[Gilbert Sebenste]

Hello all,

I'm having a serious problem here, and I hope somebody can help.

On March 30, I upgraded to the latest version of RPM. That broke yum, by 
giving me lots of errors. SO, to fix it, I downloaded the latest RPMs for 
RPM again...

rpm-build-4.4.1-23.i386.rpm
rpm-devel-4.4.1-23.i386.rpm
rpm-libs-4.4.1-23.i386.rpm
rpm-python-4.4.1-23.i386.rpm
rpm-4.4.1-23.i386.rpm

and did a

rpm -ivh --force rpm*.rpm

Well, now all I get when I type rpm anything is:

%rpm --rebuilddb

rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database 
environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)

OK. Yum and now RPM are useless on my system. Now what? How can I get this 
working again? What do I have to reinstal, and how?

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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