On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 05:52 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:10 +0000, JCT wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I wonder if someone can help. My rpm db was corrupted.
> >
> > So I ran rm -f __db* followed rpm rebuild db which ran OK. But I keep
> > getting the following error.
> >
> > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> > warning: kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> > ID 025e513b
> > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> Have you upgraded the rpm package since your last reboot? ... sometimes
> after an rpm upgrade, I have to restart my machine.
>
That is if the actual RPM package is upgraded ... ie moving from rpm-4.2.2 to rpm-4.2.3, etc.
Not after installing an rpm :)
