If you get this error, something happened to the rpm database. To fix.
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages rpm --rebuilddb yum clean all |
Run yum again.
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Yum RPMDB failed
If you are getting an error similar to the yum error below, yum may be broken in your system.
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2196/139984719730496 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30973) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm CRITICAL:yum.main: Error: rpmdb open failed |
Here’s the fix.
mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp yum clean all |
Run your yum commands. The errors should be gone.