If you encounter any of the following messages: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db3 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument error: cannot open Packages index using db3 – Invalid argument (22) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm error: rpmdb: damaged header #1439 retrieved — skipping. or a similar RPM-related error message, it is probable that your RPM database is damaged. RPM uses a database to maintain the package dependency information. This database is normally located at /var/lib/rpm. # cd /var/lib/rpm # ls -al total 86420 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 21:09 . drwxr-xr-x. 45
