Fix RPMDB

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Quick FIX: rpmdb: failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library

Nasty RPMDB error

rpmdb: Thread/process xxxxx/xxxxx 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.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed

The Fix

mv /var/lib/rpm/__* /tmp/
rpm --rebuilddb

Upgrade packages

yum clean all
yum makecache fast
yum upgrade -y

Quick gist

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rpmdbfix.sh

curl https://awsum.co/gists/rpmdbfix.sh | sh
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