RPM's -- Now you see them, ...

[Patrick Beart <patrick RandomSoup com>]

Folks:

	OK, ... I'm going a bit crazy, here.   8P

	I installed Webmin last night, from the RPM. Using the ...

		rpm -Uhv <file>.rpm

	... command (as root). Everything went well, and Webmin is 
installed. NOW, when I try to install Courier (MTA) that way, I'm 
getting database errors. Similar errors occur when I try the above 
command as "user", btw. Here's a sample ...

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Preparing...                rpmdb: read: 0x4007c394, 4096: Input/output error
rpmdb: unable to create/retrieve page 3810
rpmdb: PANIC: Input/output error
error: db3 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error
error: db3 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: 
Fatal error, run database recovery
error: db3 error(-30987) from db3c_open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery
error: db3 error(-30987) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery
########################################### [100%]
		...snipped...
error: db3 error(-30987) from dbenv->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
error: db3 error(-30987) from db_env_create: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
error: db3 error(-30987) from dbenv->remove: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal 
error, run database recovery
rpmdb: read: 0x40732b74, 4096: Input/output error
rpmdb: Overflow page 3810 has bogus prev_pgno value
rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 3810
error: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database 
verification failed
[root Faraday i386]#
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	I also tried to install "Nano" (a Pico-like editor, that 
works better than Pico), and I'm getting the SAME database errors! 
Weird.  ;-/

	What is missing, here?   TIA




Patrick Beart
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