yum failure.

[Alchemist]

2014-10-15 23:31 GMT+03:00 William <mattison.computer at yahoo.com>:

> 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[~]:
>>
> To answer Ranjan,
> > Has you done this before?
> Yes, I've been doing it every week for over a year.  This is the first
> time I've had a problem.
>
> > Were you doing this as root or do you have super user status on your
> system?
> I always do it as root.
>
> "Alchemist" suggested:
> > Do as root
> > pkill yum && pkill rpm && rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* && rpmdb
> --rebuilddb && sync
>
> This appeared to have no effect.  So I tried the individual pieces as
> separate commands.  That appeared to work.  I then tried the "yum update".
> It appears to have worked.  Thank-you!
>
> Follow-up question...
> I know that the packages on my work station came from at least two
> repositories.  I don't recall which.  I have a graphics card driver which I
> think came from an external(?) repository.  I have "xeyes", "xv", and
> "xcdroast", which also might have come from "external" repositories.  How
> can I check that the sequence of commands that "Alchemist" gave me got all
> the repositories?
>
> thanks,
> Bill.
>

RPMDB is repo unaware and includes all native RPMs. To check package
against repo list use
yum list or yumdb info [package name]

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