Hello, Iam having the following problem: #rpm -qa gave the following output error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) Then I did the following: #mkdir /var/lib/rpm #rpm --initdb # ls -la /var/lib/rpm total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 08:58 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 4 08:57 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 May 4 08:57 Packages When I execute "rpm -qa" I get no output.Iam missing a lot of information in rpm directory. How can I recreate it? I donot know how I lost the whole directory and the contents? Iam missing rpmpkgs file also. Thanks in advance, Kumar ------------------------------------------------------------------ Padiyath Sreekumar | Tel: +41.56.310.3643 Paul Scherrer Institut | email: kumar.padiyath@xxxxxx AIT | Office: WHGA/U132 WHGA/U132 | Fax: +41.56.310.3649 CH-5232 Villigen PSI | Switzerland | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list