I am having rpm problem in RH9 after running up2date, either user or 
root can not query rpm packages
error message: 
#rpm -qa
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
no packages

after follow the instructions descripted in 
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

I have done as root:
#cd /var/lib/rpm
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb

I got message:
# rpm -vv --rebuilddb
D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.15334
D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.15334
D: opening old database with dbapi 3
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index
D: removing directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.15334

so I did
#cd /var/lib/rpm
# rm -f __db.00*
# /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify Packages

no error message at this time
then I did 
#rpm -qa
I got:
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
no packages


what shall I do to fix it now? 

Thanks a lot!!

Helen