error after install any software

[Andy Blanchard]

Sounds like either a corrupted yum or rpm database.  I'd start by
flushing the former and rebuilding the latter:

sudo yum clean all
sudo rpm --rebuilddb



On 18 January 2015 at 23:16, William Biggs <kc8pdr at ohioham.com> wrote:
> I running 21 with gnome install when I try to install any software from
> the software center . The first software install just fine . But when I
> try to install anything else it will not install so . I try to install
> it from command line with yum install program's name to see the error
> and I get this  error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->open: 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 . Only way I can get it to work is to reboot . Dose
> anyone know how to fix it ?
>
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Andy

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