Problem description

An error occurred while installing the software using yum

[root@localhost ~]# yum install pv -y
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 11498/140107732375616 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
[root@localhost ~]# 

Problem analysis

Yum was unable to open the package index using db5 – (- 30973) and the package database in/var/lib/rpm
according to the prompt yumrpmdb: bdb0113 thread/process 11498/140107732375616 failed, enter/var/lib/rpm to delete the corresponding DB file, and then rebuild yum

Solution:

1. View the/var/lib/RPM directory and delete it__DB * file

$ /var/lib/rpm
$ ls
Basenames     __db.001  __db.003  Group       Name          Packages     Requirename  Sigmd5
Conflictname  __db.002  Dirnames  Installtid  Obsoletename  Providename  Sha1header   Triggername
$ rm -rf __db.*

2. Refactoring yum

$ rpm --rebuilddb

3. Clear Yum cache

$ yum clean all

4. Update the software chain of Yum

$  yum repolist