Try rpm --rebuilddb

hth

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net> wrote:

> Hrmmm ....
>
> After a clean upgrade of rpm 4.4.9 to rpm 5.1.0 I appear to have a
> corrupted database. This was a cleanly installed test system.
>
> Trying to remove createrepo renders repeated messages...
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #830 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #830 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #830 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #830 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #830 retrieved -- skipping.
> error: rpmdb: damaged header #830 retrieved -- skipping.
>
> Any package basically renders a similar result.
>
> Command I"m running is:   rpm -e createrepo
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
> -N
>