1) This could be anything. From file system corruption, to a bug. 2) rpm --rebuilddb will do what you need. -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz at crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of M. Fioretti Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 8:27 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Damaged rpm database? Hello, while doing some maintenance on a Centos 4.4 box, I ran rpm -qa --last and got: error: rpmdb: damaged header #91 retrieved -- skipping. ...lots of lines identical to the one above and finally: the_last_package_I_installed_yesterday.rpm all the other rpms in reverse installation order I've seen via google that this should mean there is a damaged rpm database and it should be rebuilt with one or two command, however: 1) how can I find out _why_ the damage happened? 2) what are the right command and options to restore the database? The examples I've found are 5+ years old, so I'm not really inclined to run them as they are. TIA, Marco _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071006/d03f54df/attachment-0005.html>