On Sat, 3 May 2003, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > ... > Also, when I run rpm -qa on packages that I > know Red Hat installed as RPM's, I get absolutley no response, which > usually means that a package isn't installed. rpm -qa by itself should list all the packages rpm thinks is installed; if your database is as broken as you think it is this might be a short list. Another idea on fixing your database; you could try using /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump instead of db_dump, etc. as I am guessing these may be the db4 utilities corresponding to the db4 version rpm uses. Michael Young