rpmdb: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
If you see rpmdb errors in your control pane or during package management (during yum/rpm operations), like this:
rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 4106/140140548798528 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library
or like
rpm '-qa' '--qf' '%{NAME} %{VERSION}
'
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 4106/140140548798528 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
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 4106/140140548798528 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 database in /var/lib/rpm
Runtime error: unable to execute: "rpm '-qa' '--qf' '%{NAME} %{VERSION}
'"
stdout: ''
stderr: 'error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 4106/140140548798528 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
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 4106/140140548798528 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 database in /var/lib/rpm
'
description: 'exit Status: 1'
It means that the RPM database is corrupted.
Solution
Please follow these steps to backup and rebuild the rpmdb database:
mkdir /var/lib/rpm/backup
cp -a /var/lib/rpm/__db* /var/lib/rpm/backup/
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.[0-9][0-9]*
rpm --quiet -qa
rpm --rebuilddb
yum clean all
