Thanks again to those who've replied.
Below are the last 30 or so lines of output from 'rpm -vv --rebuilddb'. There was much, much more; it's definitely doing *something*. You can see the error message about half-way down. Observation: the modification dates on the 'Basenames', 'Packages', 'Dirnames', etc. files in /var/lib/rpm do not change. The '__db.001', etc. files reappear and have the current mod date.
rpm -q is still flakey. Many packages are reported as 'not installed'. Some return double listings. Examples:
farmer ~ >> sudo rpm -q rpm rpm-4.2-1 farmer ~ >> sudo rpm -q glibc glibc-2.3.2-11.9 glibc-2.3.2-11.9 farmer ~ >> sudo rpm -q libgcc libgcc-3.2.2-5 farmer ~ >> sudo rpm -q ncurses ncurses-5.3-4 ncurses-5.3-4 farmer ~ >> sudo rpm -q kernel package kernel is not installed farmer ~ >> sudo rpm -q sudo package sudo is not installed
Any idea how I can get a working rpm database? Thanks in advance...
-- Joe Nestlerode DuPont Chemical Sciences & Engineering Wilmington, Delaware joseph.nestlerode@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
'rpm -vv --rebuilddb' output (only last lines shown...) D: adding "25ae7d69758f4a85d6c8c62721f22e41fbb56773" to Sha1header index. D: adding 141 entries to Filemd5s index. D: read h# 171 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e D: +++ h# 173 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e D: adding "e2fsprogs" to Name index. D: adding 63 entries to Basenames index. D: adding "System Environment/Base" to Group index. D: adding 17 entries to Requirename index. D: adding 7 entries to Providename index. D: adding 10 entries to Dirnames index. D: adding 17 entries to Requireversion index. D: adding 7 entries to Provideversion index. D: adding 1 entries to Installtid index. D: adding 1 entries to Sigmd5 index. D: adding "0682aa6ae81b23bda8b75c14a46f6e4f7422f030" to Sha1header index. D: adding 63 entries to Filemd5s index. D: read h# 173 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e D: +++ h# 174 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e D: adding "libuser" to Name index. D: adding 44 entries to Basenames index. D: adding "System Environment/Base" to Group index. D: adding 23 entries to Requirename index. D: adding 7 entries to Providename index. D: adding 24 entries to Dirnames index. D: adding 23 entries to Requireversion index. D: adding 7 entries to Provideversion index. D: adding 1 entries to Installtid index. D: adding 1 entries to Sigmd5 index. D: adding "23451f4be5137af668ac9b25873b60e26ae71ce8" to Sha1header index. D: adding 44 entries to Filemd5s index. D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy D: removed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Pubkeys D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Filemd5s D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Sha1header D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Sigmd5 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Installtid D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Provideversion D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Requireversion D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Dirnames D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Triggername D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Conflictname D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Providename D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Requirename D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Group D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Basenames D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Packages D: removed db environment /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268/Packages D: removing directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.19268 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
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