“Error: rpmdb open failed”

Saat menggunakan yum di CentOS 7 muncul pesan Error: rpmdb open failed.

yum update -y 
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2921108/140151702521664 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:

Kesalahan seperti ini berarti repositori yum lokal telah rusak. Untuk memperbaikinya, perlu membersihkan basis data yum lokal :

mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp
yum clean all

Jika sudah, silahkan update kembali