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Posted on Jan 17, 2009
Fedora Yellow Update Manager (yum) Database-Errors (quick fix)
I had a strange error within my last yum update command. I got these error
rpmdb: Thread/process xxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
and yum stuck in the mid of the update process. This might have been due to an compromised ext-filesystem, as my laptop didn’t shutdown properly and maybe the journal got cluttered.
However, there is an easy way to get thinks back to a working state (at least for me), which might help others:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm –rebuilddb yum clean all yum check-update
The first two lines remove the old database entries and rebuild the Berkely database. Make sure, that there are no other yum-services running while rebuilding the database (at least this is, what has been said in the bug-reports). The second two lines clean the yum cache and update the package lists. Yum should run without database errors now.
The error has multiple hits (though it’s obviously not a bug) on the Fedora bug-tracker (bug#471411, bug#468437, bug#462314, bug#479818 and bug#45303)