I think that in some cases the rpm database does not clean up properly when you kill an rpm command in progress. I must say that I have seen this problem only with the rpm-system shipped with Mandrake 9.0.
Nope, I saw this also on 8.2 (in fact I have a cd writer server running 8.2 where rpm freaked out and I didn't bother to recover the database, I will just reinstall if I need to update something).
And, btw, these corruption were while normal rpm install/upgrade, no interruption whatsoever (the last one a week ago, and the rebuilddb missed the upgraded package, ie. neither the old nor the new version was in the database).
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