> I've done this in my home computer, just to test it and repeat it in a > remote computer later, and everythingg updated ok, but I have a very > serious problem: the rpm database is empty. Only the newly installed rpms > appear. > > I've tried rpm --rebuilddb and rpm --initdb to no luck. > I've just tried to make a CD update and, obviously, as there are no rpms, > it does nothing. > > Any hint to recover this rpm database? Something didn't finish completely, then. Did you run out of disk space, perchance? I don't know of a way to recover your rpmdb, no. -sv