From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: While updating my Red Hat 7.0 servers to ypserv-2.5-2.7x I get this error message: [root@rpfirew i386]# rpm -Uvh ypserv-2.5-2.7x.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:ypserv ########################################### [100%] rpmdb: Suspiciously high nelem of 4294967295 on page 0 Fehler: db4 error(-30979) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed This happens on all of my RedHat 7.0 servers but on no RedHat 7.2/7.3 server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update a RedHat 7.0 system to ypserv-2.5-2.7x 2. Look at the messages from rpm 3. Additional info:
Also happens for me on Red Hat 7.1
You need to do rpm --rebuilddb to fix this. This is a known issue with upgrading the rpm in 7.0/1 i think. At least a lot of people have seen this.
rpm --rebuilddb has indeed solved the problem for me. Thanks.