Error: rpmdb: Thread died in Berkeley DB library

[Mihai]

Error

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error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 16780/139771843319616 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

Solution

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[root@ centos ~]$ mkdir /var/lib/rpm/backup
[root@ centos ~]$ rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.[0-9][0-9]*
[root@ centos ~]$ rpm --quiet -qa
[root@ centos ~]$ rpm --rebuilddb
[root@ centos ~]$ yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning repos: base epel extras ius mariadb-main mariadb-maxscale mariadb-tools updates webtatic
Cleaning up everything
Maybe you want: rm -rf /var/cache/yum, to also free up space taken by orphaned data from disabled or removed repos
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
[root@ centos ~]$ rm -rf /var/cache/yum
[root@ centos ~]$ yum update -y