May I safely execute yum-complete-transaction?

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Clemens Eisserer wrote:

> Ok, now it dies because it says my database is corrupted:
>
> rpmdb: Thread/process 1789/3086182080 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
> error: db4 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
>
>
> I guess my options repaing this are rather limited?
> Any ideas?

run:

rpm --rebuilddb

and see if that helps.

-sv