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Could you please any one help me?

I'm getting following error message "error: rpmdb: damaged header #1439 retrieved -- skipping." while I'm trying to install Samba server. I tried Google search but unable to solve my problem.

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  • What distribution are you using? If it is Fedora, please add the full output and the command you are issuing. – skytux Nov 18 '15 at 18:10
  • Thank you for answering my question I'm using CentOS kernal ver 2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 CentOS release 6.7 (Final) – Mohd Shakeer Nov 18 '15 at 20:00
  • sudo yum -y install samba I'm using this command to install samba – Mohd Shakeer Nov 18 '15 at 20:19
  • You shoudn't tag this question as ubuntu or fedora, but anyway I'm going to write an asnwer that I think it is the one that will solve your issue. – skytux Nov 18 '15 at 22:25
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It seems that the RPM database is corrupted in some way, so you should try to restore it:

sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

and then rebuild it:

sudo rpm --rebuilddb

Hope this helps!!

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  • Thank you skytux my problem has been solved. and sorry for the wrong tagging. – Mohd Shakeer Nov 19 '15 at 20:39
  • I'm glad you solved your issue! :) – skytux Nov 19 '15 at 22:21
  • You are free to vote if the answer helped you!! ;) – skytux Nov 21 '15 at 17:29
  • I'm unable to vote your answer. – Mohd Shakeer Nov 23 '15 at 15:27
  • Hmmm, didn't have that file/directory, the rebuild command trew another, different error, but a second rebuild command finished without error. After, the initial error about damaged headers was gone. – sweber Sep 4 '17 at 18:07

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