On 20010730 Thies C. Arntzen wrote:
>
>    been away for a week - did a urpmi --auto-select and then
>    rebootet, when i now try to rpm -Uvh or rpm --rebuild some
>    package i get:
>
>Installing sablotron-0.60-1.src.rpm
>rpmdb: Program version 3.3.11 doesn't match environment version 3.3.4
>error: db3 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
>error: cannot open rpm database in /var/lib/rpm
>
>    rpm -qa still shows all packages - so i really hope my
>    rpm-database isn't destroyed!
>
>    can anybody enlighten me was is wrong?
>    thanx,
>    tc
>

Go to /var/lib/rpm and delete all __db* files. That worked for me.

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