rpm -e output is confusing and insufficient for cleanup. Example: blinky# rpm -e howto-italian package README not listed in file index package README not listed in file index package README not listed in file index package INFO-SHEET-9.html not found in file index package README not listed in file index package README not listed in file index package INFO-SHEET-9.html not found in file index It seems to be saying that it couldn't delete some files. But it doesn't call them files, it calls them packages. And, it doesn't list the full path to these files, so I have no way to find them to do cleanup by hand. I haven't been able to check yet whether or not this also occurs in newer releases.
This error can be ignored. The message is warning (in very bad English) that the listed files names, which are keyed by using the basename of the file(s), which would be removed by the erase command, are already removed from the file name inverted list. Since the basename's have already been removed, there is no way to indicate the entire file path. FWIW, this bug has been in all of rpm-3.0.x and has, aside from the error message itself, no other known consequence.