valeur

I just had a similar situation, thanks to my own ingenious multitaking! :lol: I was installing files with urpmi in the konsole to force some dependency problems, while installing and removing packages with RpmDrake. You know, install it, mess around with it a litte, decide you don't want that program, so remove it. What you get doing that is a corrupted rpm database. In a terminal, type "rpm --rebuilddb" without quotes. Try it again, it should work. It fixed my genius! Tim A touch of genius was just what I needed! The option "rebuilddb" worked wonders and even brought back to life the files db1 and db2. Good deal to you. valeur

Many thanks for valuable suggestions. It wasn't overly obvious that the error message about db3 actually referred to the 3rd MDK install cd database, particularly when using a scaled-down version of 9.1.consisting of only 2 cd's! I am digging out the 3rd disk from my 9.0 version and believe this will now work fine. valeur

When giving the command rpm -i filename.rpm in Mandrake 9.1, the system sometimes responds with the following message: error: cannot open Packages index using db3 error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm In /var/lib/rpm I have __db.001 and 002, but no file db3. Without having any knowledge what this is all about, I assume it is the missing file db3, which is the problem. Can anyone please tell what should be done here? Strange thing is locate command reports db1 and db2 are found in /var/lib/rpm, but mc does not list the files. Any help will be appreciated. valeur