If I'm installing an RPM package, then I run RPM as root.  If I'm
just querying the installed packages then I don't need to be root.
I actually fixed the problem last night by running this command:
rpm --rebuilddb


Quoting David Mandala <David.Mandala@DevelopOnline.com>:

> Are you running RPM as root?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Alexander [mailto:m@netpro.to]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:13 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RPM weirdness...
> 
> 
> RPM has started doing funky things lately and I'm not sure why...
> When I do something like:
> 
> rpm -qa|grep foo
> 
> It just hangs.
> And when I try to install a new package, I get fun messages like this:
> 
> error: db3 error(-30998) from db->close: DB_INCOMPLETE: Cache flush
> was
> unable to complete
> 
> Anyone have any idea what's going on?
> 
> The last I touched RPM was when I upgraded to KDE 2.2
> Thanks,
> ~M
> 
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