All... I have had a significant crash of the whole RPM system on my 11.4 x86_64 and I can't find the correct answer. Using Yast2, I was downloading all the files I needed to do in order to load perl-bootloader. Yast2 decided it couldn't finish the install and died. Now when I try and run RPM I get the same thing: rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 9 error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) Searching through the web I've found cd /var/lib/rpm rm -fv __db* mv -v Packages Packages-BAK db_dump Packages-BAK | db45_load Packages rpm -vv --rebuilddb This was not successful Thanks to an old post by Carlos, I found the backup, but I get the same error zypper gets me: error while loading shared libraries: librpm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Smart's answer is 'rpm' python module is not available Yast2 never comes up. Trying to reinstall python-rpm gets me nowhere. I really don't want to do a reinstall.. Since switching to x86_64 I've had more problems then I did with 6.3. Any help would be appreciated.. -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes _.._ _ ."\__/"./`_\ _/__<__>__\/ jgs `"/_/""""\_\\ Adolph & Sharon Weidanz SuSE 11.4 x86_64 '78 43' Endeavour Ketch S/V Time To Paws -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org