up2date Kernel 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl fatal region error

[Steven Stern]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:12:58 -0500, "WA9ALS - John"
<ham_reflectors at wa9als.com> wrote:

>I've had flawless experience with up2date until tonight trying to upgrade
>the Kernel using the -uf options to force the upgrade (past my skiplist).  I
>run up2date remotely from a terminal.  It downloads and installs to 100%,
>and then launches a zillions lines of:
>
>rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>
>What does that mean?

I found a bunch of useful stuff here:

   http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb-2003-06/