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

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Bubrouski [mailto:satan@fastdial.net]
> 
> How about typing: file /var/lib/rpm/*  this will tell us if 
> your database is
> ok or screwed
> beyond repair.  Here's the output from my healthy rpm (v4) database:

Here's something similar from my RH 6.2 machine, with RPM 3.0.5.

[gleblanc@grego1 gleblanc]$ file /var/lib/rpm/*
/var/lib/rpm/conflictsindex.rpm: Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 1, Last Freed 2, Max Bucket 1,
High Mask 0x3, Low Mask 0x1, Fill Factor 65536, Number of Keys 21)
/var/lib/rpm/fileindex.rpm:      Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 9, Last Freed 7, Max Bucket 438,
High Mask 0x1ff, Low Mask 0xff, Fill Factor 173, Number of Keys 41062)
/var/lib/rpm/groupindex.rpm:     Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 1, Last Freed 2, Max Bucket 1,
High Mask 0x3, Low Mask 0x1, Fill Factor 65536, Number of Keys 49)
/var/lib/rpm/nameindex.rpm:      Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 2, Last Freed 1, Max Bucket 3,
High Mask 0x3, Low Mask 0x1, Fill Factor 200, Number of Keys 595)
/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm:       data
/var/lib/rpm/providesindex.rpm:  Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 4, Last Freed 1, Max Bucket 15,
High Mask 0xf, Low Mask 0x7, Fill Factor 131, Number of Keys 1185)
/var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm:     Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 4, Last Freed 1, Max Bucket 15,
High Mask 0xf, Low Mask 0x7, Fill Factor 59, Number of Keys -3402)
/var/lib/rpm/triggerindex.rpm:   Berkeley DB 1.85 Hash/Little Endian
(Version 2, Bucket Size 4096, Bucket Shift 12, Directory Size 256, Segment
Size 256, Segment Shift 8, Overflow Point 1, Last Freed 2, Max Bucket 1,
High Mask 0x3, Low Mask 0x1, Fill Factor 65536, Number of Keys 22)
[gleblanc@grego1 gleblanc]$ 

	Greg