On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:39 +0100, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to fix rpm when it constantly says it cannot access the > database in /var/lib/rpm? Without error messages it's a little hard to say exactly what you are seeing. Try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rm -f //usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/__db* rpm -e rpmdb-fedora More advice here: http://rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ Paul