>>Anyone ever see this error when removing a package? >> >>error: cannot open Sigmd5 index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) >>error: cannot open Filemd5s index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) >> >>I saw it for the first time on a box today when doing an apt-get remove. >>I suspect I'd get the same result doing an rpm -e. Note, the package >>did get removed despite the error. > > > That's not good, it means that /var/lib/rpm is missing the above mentioned > files. If there's not a reason for something like this to have happened > (fsck, manual deletion..) you might check and see if the system has been > broken into. I got this upgrading from RH7.2 to 7.3, I would guess it would have something to do with the new version of RPM. Wouldn't worry about it too much. Might try an 'rpm --rebuilddb' to make sure things are okay.