How to rebuild RPM database on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system?

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Issue

  • RPM is not working correctly, updates cannot be applied.
  • How to rebuild the RPM database?
  • Why does rpm command segfault when executed?
  • yum update fails with rpmdb errors.
  • Damaged header instance error
  • rpm command terminates with "cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm"
  • Why does rpm or yum terminate with rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries?
  • Attempted to do an rpm -q on a couple of packages and got errors like this:
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unexpected file type or format  
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
  • On doing rpm query or install, it is failing with following error:-
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    1601 Header V4 RSA/SHA1 signature: BAD, key ID 2874ffbe
  • Why "rpm -qa" command is not showing installed packages?
  • rpm command hangs/hung
  • rpm database got corrupted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - All Versions - All architectures

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