I had to figure out how to compile php on a plesk machine and actually get it to work so I took the time to document everything. This guide *should* work, I know it worked on 2 seperate machines. Aside from that do it at your own risk I am not so fond of plesk because it does have so many issues with upgrade. If you have any trouble or dep issues please post thme here so I can work the fixes into the guide.

This was contributed by JLChafardet from the ev1forums:

How-to fix login problems in Plesk (Unable to open rpm db : [cannot open Packages index using db- ( - 30982 )]

This seems to be a common plesk issue when RPM gets upgraded, the way to fix it is as follows:

Go to the rpm database directory:

cd /var/lib/rpm

Create a backup directory for your old database:

mkdir backupdb

Copy all the database files to the folder just created:

cp __db* /var/lib/rpm/backupdb

Remove the old rpm database:

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

Rebuild the rpm database:

rpm –rebuilddb

I hope this information is useful for you all,
Best regards,
JLChafardet