We often run into the error while updating the yum on cPanel\/WHM servers.<\/p>\n
Error:<\/p>\n
rpmdb: Thread\/process 29586\/140397819602848 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library\r\nerror: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery\r\nerror: cannot open Packages index using db3 \u2013 (-30974)\r\nerror: cannot open Packages database in \/var\/lib\/rpm\r\nCRITICAL:yum.main:\r\n\r\nError: rpmdb open failed<\/pre>\nIt usually occurs when the RPM database is corrupted on the server<\/p>\n
To fix this error, Login to your Server\/VPS via SSH with root credentials.<\/p>\n
Then we try to stash all the files used by the yum repository for the dependency resolution:<\/p>\n
yum clean headers<\/pre>\nClean yum packages cache:<\/p>\n
yum clean packages<\/pre>\nThen we clean metadata:<\/p>\n
yum clean metadata<\/pre>\nClean dbcache:<\/p>\n
yum clean dbcache<\/pre>\nClean remaining:<\/p>\n
yum clean all<\/pre>\nRemove clean all RPM database files:<\/p>\n
rm -f \/var\/lib\/rpm\/__db.*<\/pre>\nRebuilt RPM Database:<\/p>\n
rpm -vv \u2013rebuilddb<\/pre>\nFinally, we run the update command:<\/p>\n
yum update<\/pre>\nTo resolve this error, we can also try to rebuild the RPM database using the Rebuild RPM database tool in WHM:<\/p>\n
\u201cWHM Home \u00bb Software \u00bb Rebuild RPM Database\u201d<\/p>\n
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We often run into the error while updating the yum on cPanel\/WHM servers. […]<\/p>\n