rpm error???

["Takacs Istvan" <istvan takacs hungax com>]

Hi,

Red Hat 7.2, 2.4.18
RPM version 4.0.4

I've just upgraded rpm by up2date and
than if I try to query its db, it shows these
error messages;

# rpm -qa|grep rpm
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #116 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #142 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #146 retrieved, skipping.

# rpm --rebuilddb;
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #116 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #142 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #146 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #170 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #252 retrieved, skipping.
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #267 retrieved, skipping.
*** dbiUpdateRecord: uh is NULL
Segmentation fault

# rpm -qa
[...]
readline-devel-4.2-2
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #252 retrieved, skipping.
newt-devel-0.50.33-1
perl-5.6.1-26.72.3
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #267 retrieved, skipping.
glibc-common-2.2.4-19.3
[...]

On one of our other system ( RH 7.0, 2.4.7-10smp, rpm-4.0.3)
if I try to run up2date, than it sends this;

# up2date -u
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1014, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 320, in main
    up2date.updateLoginInfo()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 430, in
updateLoginInfo
    loginInfo = login()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 336, in login
    maybeUpdateVersion()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 512, in
maybeUpdateVersi
on
    systemVer = getVersion()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 461, in getVersion
    raise RpmError("Couldn't determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are
run
ning.\nIf you get this error, try running \n\n\t\trpm --rebuilddb\n\n")
up2date_client.up2date.RpmError: RPM error.  The message was:
Couldn't determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
If you get this error, try running

                rpm --rebuilddb


Could you help me please, what should I check?

Thanks in advance!

Regards;

		Istvan