yum failure.

[Alchemist]

2014-10-15 21:48 GMT+03:00 William <mattison.computer at yahoo.com>:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I have F20 on a 64-bit system.  I'm a home user with no sysadmin training
> and no real sysadmin experience.  I tried to do my weekly patches, and got
> this:
>
> bash.6[~]: yum update
> error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2156/140591811774272 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
> bash.7[~]:
>
> How do I get my weekly patches done?
>
> Thank-you in advance for your help.
> Bill.
> --
>

Do as root

pkill yum && pkill rpm && rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* && rpmdb --rebuilddb
&& sync



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