[lug] RPM issues

[howeljs at grimoire.stortek.com]

I'm pretty new to Redhat and dealing with RPMs. I've tried to be a good 
boy and only install softare via RPM so the dependancies don't get 
hosed. I'm having a problem now. I'm running RH 7.1 and when I run the 
Red Carpet software updater (Very cool when it works I must admit) It 
fails every dependancy. The packages it complains about I know are 
installed (it complains bout 100's of them). It appears my rpm database 
is hosed. Is there any way to fix this?

I've tried a rpm --rebuilddb  It ground away for about 30 mins and 
appeared to have no effect. Any suggestions?

-- 
  Jeff Howell
  EDS Unix Support

  for a in `your_base`
   do
    chown us:us $a
   done