[Exim] help with exim rpm for Red Hat 9

Hello, All!

I have a some problem regarding to installing exim rpm.
Environment:
1. Red Hat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
2. exim-base-4.30-1_14.rh9.i386.rpm from ftp.exim.org/pub/rpms-for-exim/rh9

I tested a package with option --test. Always is fine.
When I was installing this package, something has been happened. The rpms have been extracted, /usr/sbin/exim-base has been present. But after this rpm suddenly stopped any activietyes and I have to kill it with option -9.

After that all rpm command can't work.
# rpm -q -vv exim-base
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0

What's happened? Any comments are acceptable.

Many thanks, Natalya Pyalling.
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