Help needed regarding rpm error.

[Ding Li]

Hi,all

I am using rh 9.0. Today I tried to install some rpm package,but I 
failed. Then I looked at the rpm command. It seems that rpm is 
corrupted. If I use the normal user, I can use rpm,but if I use root,I 
can't. Why? and do I need to rebuild the rpm db? and how?

[dingli at condense dingli]$ rpm -qa | grep vsftpd
vsftpd-1.1.3-8
[dingli at condense dingli]$ su -
[root at condense root]# rpm -qa | grep vsftpd
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30982)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
[root at condense root]#


Thanks

Ding