rpm -qa without results

[David C. Chipman]

	Hi Antonio, 

		You seem  to have some files missing. Here is the list
of files on my functioning system:

total 296068
     8 drwxr-xr-x  2 rpm  rpm       4096 2008-04-21 14:13 .
     8 drwxr-xr-x 65 root root      4096 2008-04-15 03:05 ..
 32372 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm   42164224 2008-04-21 23:22 Basenames
    16 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm      12288 2008-04-17 03:25 Conflictname
     0 -rw-r--r--  1 root root         0 2008-04-21 14:13 __db.000
    12 -rw-r--r--  1 root root     24576 2008-04-21 23:24 __db.001
  1292 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   1318912 2008-04-21 23:24 __db.002
   324 -rw-r--r--  1 root root    450560 2008-04-21 23:24 __db.003
  7836 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm    8007680 2008-04-21 23:22 Dirnames
 32992 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm   41803776 2008-04-21 23:22 Filemd5s
    88 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm      86016 2008-04-21 23:22 Group
    84 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm      77824 2008-04-21 23:22 Installtid
   176 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm     172032 2008-04-21 23:22 Name
215804 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm  220815360 2008-04-21 23:22 Packages
  1068 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm    1339392 2008-04-21 23:22 Providename
   512 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm     516096 2008-04-21 23:22 Provideversion
    16 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm      12288 2008-01-07 13:32 Pubkeys
  1496 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm    1990656 2008-04-21 23:22 Requirename
  1140 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm    1159168 2008-04-21 23:22 Requireversion
   532 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm     659456 2008-04-21 23:22 Sha1header
   276 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm     327680 2008-04-21 23:22 Sigmd5
    16 -rw-r--r--  1 rpm  rpm      12288 2008-04-17 03:28 Triggername

		I don't know how you can generate them, though. I wish
you luck getting things working again....

			-David Chipman