Re: Corrupt rpm database

["Benjamin R. Mohilef" <benm dsl-only net>]

Oddly enough, I had a similar problem on an smp development box 
running Rawhide (beta) when I tried to upgrade to the new and 
improved glibc set. Lots of "I can only do PRIVATE_DB" type 
messages, rpm only worked from user accounts (not root) and no 
ability to reverse the glibc change.  

I ended up putting an old 7.3 install CD in yon CD slot and using 
the rescue mode to do an overwrite of the previous glibc rpm set. 
All common sense said that that should not have worked, but it did 
so, and in the process rescued my Christmas. 

You might try to see if this works for you. 

regards,

ben

P.S.
As long as I am writing to the list, has anyone else had problems 
getting the gcc pseudoassembler (asm) to consistently handle 
dword division ??