"Error: unrecognized db option..." in red-carpet & gnorpm

[Phillip Pi <philpi apu edu>]

I am having a major problem when I run red-carpet, gnorpm, and possibly
other commands/programs. Basically, I keep getting these two errors in
text mode and GUI mode:

error: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
error: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored

When red-carpet tries to upgrade components/packages, it segfaults. I
noticed one of the packages it tried to install left a mess with libxml
when I rpm -q libxml:

libxml-1.8.14-ximian.1
libxml-1.8.15-ximian.2
libxml-1.8.15-ximian.2
libxml-1.8.15-ximian.2

I don't know how to clean up the duplicates since rpm -e libxml-1.8.15
gives me this error: "libxml-1.8.15" specifies multiple packages


My RPM versions are:
gnorpm-0.96-1
red-carpet-1.1.2-ximian.1

I am running on Red Hat Linux v7.1 (Kernel v2.4.9). I am not sure if I
broke something (I probably did!). Basically, a week ago I upgraded the
default Kernel (v2.4.2) to v2.4.9 manually. I can confirm Kernel was
stable, but I am not sure if it caused this problem.

Another recent upgrade was upgrading KDE v2.1 to v2.2. I had to update a
bunch of files from ftp://ftp.kde.org including many libraries (could have
broken something).

I was unable to find any clues or posts about this on the newsgroups,
archived GNOME mailing lists, etc. I look forward to receiving a reply
soon.

Note: I am a Linux newbie so please don't get too technical. :)
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