Controls-docs/admin-guide/legacy/misc/repairrpmdb.rst

Repair the RPM DB

Introduction

Sometimes the rpm database gets broken and any command of manipulating or questioning RPMS might fail.

So, it can be necessary to remove the corrupted RPM database and to reinitialize it.

Procedure

Run:

# cd /var/lib/rpm
# rm -f __db.*
# rpmdb --initdb
# rpmdb --rebuilddb