On 06/10/17 09:12, stan wrote:
> There is an update (or test update) of libdb for F25 that, when
> installed, breaks the rpm database because it is incompatible.  The dnf
> update completes, and then hangs (at least it did on my system).  The
> fix is to remove the old rpm databases (this might be optional), and
> rebuild the rpm databases.
>
> rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?  # optional?
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> I did a reboot to sync everything that uses libdb (anything that uses
> the Berkeley db).  It might be possible just to restart affected
> applications if that isn't an option.  That worked for my mail client
> before I rebooted.


FWIW, so far I've seen no ill effects from updating to
libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25.  However, I should note that I had previously
updated to libdb-5.3.28-16 from testing also with no ill effects.

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