[fedora-india] installation problem through yum

I recently installed fedora in our EE HOD (prof. SM) computer and We are having the following problem. I have connected the computer through local mirror and everything gets downloaded, dependencies resolved. It just cannot install the package. [root@satadal satadal]# yum install vlc Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30975) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 192, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 758, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 828, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed [root@satadal satadal]# I also tried with the simple rpm file. [root@satadal Download]# rpm -Uvh fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30975) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm warning: fuse-sshfs-2.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4ebfc273 rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm [root@satadal Download]# Please add CC while replying as : rohit.kgec(a)gmail.com Regards: Rohit Gupta KGEC