Synopsis:
If you see rpmdb errors during package management, 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
It means that rpmdb database is corrupted.
Solution:
Please follow these steps to backup and rebuild 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
