Re: rpmdb is very messed up

["Joe Dames" <dames joe mlerf org>]

Aparently, my gloriously stupid accounting of linux syste administration was
truncated...
please follow this link to see the full stupidity.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redhat/message/5522

Is anyone impressed with my stupidity? You see, I tried to -U to
4.0.3 because I was getting package dependancy errors begging for
4.0. So I oblige by upgrading and then find that my rpmdb versions
from rpm3 and rpm4 don't jive. Well, I scour the web and find a guy
who has similar problem with long thread posted by about 4 or 5
people. I follow their lead to do the conversion and end up with any
rpm request coming back with this:

[root@l... rpm]# rpm -qa |fgrep -i fileutils
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: error in loading shared
libraries: /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: undefined symbol: poptAliasOptions


Is there a way to drop back ten yards and punt? I need desparately
to upgrade several rpms that the old SA didn't attend to. Horrible
bleeding security problems. Is there a way to install a new rpm*rpm
and forgo fixing this one if it is totally trashed?

Thanks for any help!