Re: rpm error

[Derald Metzger <dmetz imagelinks com>]

>
> Hello,
>
> I received a message from rpm to contact this address.
>
> I just purchased an Update CD 07/07/2000 for my RH6.0 system. The
> install script updated rpm itself and reported it was updating the rpm
> database. A kernel error message about a sector error on the hard drive
> popped up and the script reported that update of the database failed and
> then reported that it was recovering by copying files to /var/lib/rpm
> from /var/lib/rpmbupdatedb. After determining the list of packages to
> update it broke on a failed dependency:
>
> error: failed dependancies:
> libqimgio.so.0 is needed by kdebase-1.1.2-11
>
> After determining that this library was to be found in qt1x-1.44-4 I
> attempted to manually install it with this result:
>
> qt1x ##############################################################
> free list corrupt (12159368) - contact rpm-list@redhat.com
>
> rpm -q or rpm -e reports qt1x is not installed.
>
> thanks.
>

I'm sure you suspect that you may have other serious problems.
First try 
  rpm --rebuilddb

Derald
dmetz@remotesensing.org