On Friday, 26 May 2017 17.29.38 WEST Adam Williamson wrote:

> Hi folks!

>

> If you ran into problems like RPM or dnf or related apps reporting

> database errors or unexpected crashes in the last few days, it is

> almost certainly due to a broken libdb update that was sent to updates-

> testing briefly. libdb-5.3.28-18 and libdb-5.3.28-19 are both subject

> to the bug. If you got either of those builds while they were in

> updates-testing for F24, F25 or F26, please do downgrade back to libdb-

> 5.3.28-17 . To resolve the database issues you can do the old RPM

> database dance:

>

> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

> rpm --rebuilddb

>

> If you still have issues and can't fix them, please do post to test@ or

> ask on #fedora-qa or in one of the relevant bug reports:

>

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443415

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394862

>

> we do apologize for the inconvenience.

Too late for me. :-) I had this problem in the last hour. :-)

The prescribed recipe was enough to fix it. It was so long ago that I had problems that imply to rebuild the database that its memory was fading away, now it has been revived for the next year.

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José Abílio