Friday, December 20, 2013

Damaged RPM Database

Situation:
While updating my Fedora, the console displayed this message repeatedly: error: rpmdb: damaged header #4657 retrieved -- skipping.




Main Problem:
The RPM database has errors. It could be a bug or a file system corruption.

Associate Problems:
You can't add, remove, update RPM packages.

Solution:
Use the following command:
rpm --rebuilddb

Reference:
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