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.
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