On a perfectly stable AlmaLinux server you suddenly get the following error:
# yum update error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 3960860/140378867591040 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: Error: rpmdb open failed
Solution
/scripts/find_and_fix_rpm_issues
You’ll get the original out and then something like this:
(exit code 1) find_and_fix_rpm_issues: rpm issues have been found find_and_fix_rpm_issues: Performing rpm rebuild
Thereafter yum update worked. The interesting thing was all it wanted to do was update the Kernel from 3.10 to 4.18.