[Gllug] Recovering a RH6.2 system with a corrupt RPM database

[John Winters]

One of my customers has a RH 6.2 system on which the RPM database has
become corrupted.  Each time any reference to the ppp package is
made using the rpm tool, the tool crashes with a segmentation fault.

That is, if you do an "rpm -qa" you get a listing up to and including
the ppp package, then rpm crashes.  If you do a query on a package
alphabetically before the ppp one it works.  If you do a query on one
alphabetically after it crashes.

An "rpm --rebuilddb" also crashes with a segmentation fault.

Is there any way of recovering the system without re-installing?  It's
working fine apart from the corrupt rpm database.

TIA,
John

P.S.  The system is patched pretty much up to date, including the the
RPM 4 update.

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