On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, 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 that sounds like you don't have permission to read the rpm db. Are you sure that you are running as root or that you didn't change the permissions on /var/lib/rpm? -ryan -- Ryan Sweet <ryan.sweet at aoes.com> Advanced Operations and Engineering Services AOES Group BV http://www.aoes.com Phone +31(0)71 5795521 Fax +31(0)71572 1277