On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:10 +0000, JCT wrote: > Hi All, > > I wonder if someone can help. My rpm db was corrupted. > > So I ran rm -f __db* followed rpm rebuild db which ran OK. But I keep > getting the following error. > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > warning: kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key > ID 025e513b > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Have you upgraded the rpm package since your last reboot? ... sometimes after an rpm upgrade, I have to restart my machine.