Problem with Yum.Synaptic

[Jason Warm]

I am getting the following error message whenever I do an "Upgrade System"
under Synaptic or if I do "yum upgrade".  Can anyone offer up any advice?

Jason

While installing package apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.2.fr:

warning: /etc/apt/apt.conf created as /etc/apt/apt.conf.rpmnew
warning: /etc/apt/rpmpriorities saved as /etc/apt/rpmpriorities.rpmsave
warning: /etc/apt/sources.list created as /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmnew
warning: /etc/apt/vendors.list created as /etc/apt/vendors.list.rpmnew
rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from dbcursor->c_put: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
error, run database recovery
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
(repeats many times)