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

[Mate Wierdl <mw wierdlmpc msci memphis edu>]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:23:49AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> Well, thank you, I did not thought of using -vv. Here are the results:
> 
> [root@hermes /root]# rpm -qvv apache
> D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> 
> rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> 
> [root@hermes /root]# rpm -q -a -vv       
> D: opening database mode 0x0 in //var/lib/rpm/
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> 
> rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> 
> Not much more helpful...

So what did you get when you tried 

rpm --rebuilddb

and how are the permissons on /var and /var/lib ?

Mate