yum failure. [SOLVED]

[William]

On 10/15/2014 02:48 PM, William wrote:
> 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?

The solution provided by Alchemist worked, though each command had to be 
entered separately like this:

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

rather than all on one command line.

I thank Alchemist and Ranjan.

Bill.