News wrote:

> I was attempting to "yum update" on a FC 5 pc. The update failed with
> error
> messages. After that, I cannot use rpm or yum. It appears that these
> programs
> think that there are no packages installed. How do I fix this? I tried
> rpm --rebuilddb
> which did not work.

If the database is corrupt then it takes a little bit more effort;

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


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