I recently installed Fedora Core 6 on my system as a fresh installation. It took me a number of attempts to finally get the installation to complete, as it would constantly hang on disc 5 of the installation process. I was able to get it to complete by performing a realatively minimal installation, using the text install as opposed to the GUI install.

In order to install the remaining packages, I have been using RPM to complete the process, but after about 2 RPMs, the database corrupts. It makes no difference if I go through the GUI or the command line, I get the same results. Obviously, I've gone through and rebuilt the RPM database, but it corrupts immediately once I start preforming the next intallations or an RPM query, so I'm pretty much stuck.

I've seen a number of issues posted regarding problems with RPM, but they have appeared to be corrected by upgrading RPM (which I have not been able to do because of the ongoing corruption) and also by deleting and re-creating the RPM database (which I have to do constantly).

Has anyone else experienced this issue, and if so, have you managed to obtain a successful solution?

Any advice would be helpful in this regard.
Thanks!
Greg K.

I know this does not answer your question, but did you make sure there are no problems with you harddrive?
This behaviour sounds strange to me.

The hard drive isn't registering any issues or problems. I've seen problems with the RPM database corrupting before, but never repeatedly after installing a couple of RPM's.

I've experienced the same issue (almost, as this was not a fresh install but during package updates). rpm -rebuilddb would complete but has not fixed anything, pirut gives some errors before quiting when I try to run update. Reinstalled that w/ --force option but still getting nowhere. Trying to install OR uninstall any rpm gives the opposite results; cannot install package x because it is installed, cannot uninstall package x because it is not installed...like a dog chasing his tail.