failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb imaginet fr>]

Hello!

I have this problem:

    [pascal@hermes pascal]$ su
    Password: 
    [root@hermes pascal]# rpm -q -a
    failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

    rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
    [root@hermes pascal]# rpm --rebuilddb
    failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

    [root@hermes pascal]# rpm --initdb
    [root@hermes pascal]# rpm -q -a
    failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

    rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
    [root@hermes pascal]# rpm --version
    RPM version 3.0.3

What would you do in my case ?

I'm  going  to  `find  /  -print`  to  find  out  on  another  similar
installation what  packages were installed,  then remove /var/lib/rpm,
then  rebuild a  new  rpm  db, and  re-install  every packages,  being
carefull of  saving current configuration files. Would  this be right?
Note that this is on a  production machine that should not be restared
if possible. We need to upgrade some packages for security patches.


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