On 06/10/17 10:22, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.
>

Oh, I just realized I updated a second system to libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25
but it hadn't been updated from the testing repository.  No problems for
me with that update either.


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