YUM

If yum gets currupted and gives error like:

Fix rpmdb: Thread died in Berkeley DB library

Symptoms

If you see rpmdb errors during package management (during yum/rpm operations), like this:

rpmdb: Thread/process 277623/140429100390144 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library

error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)

error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

CRITICAL:yum.verbose.cli.yumcompletets:Yum Error: Error: rpmdb open failed

SOLUTION

Please follow these steps to backup and rebuild the rpmdb database:

# mkdir /var/lib/rpm/backup

# cp -a /var/lib/rpm/__db* /var/lib/rpm/backup/

# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.[0-9][0-9]*

# rpm --quiet -qa

# rpm --rebuilddb

# yum clean all