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Troubleshooting
Problem
You can see "db3 error(-30974)" errors when you are interacting with package management yum or rpm operations:
rpmdb: Thread/process 277623/140429100390144 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.verbose.cli.yumcompletets:Yum Error: Error: rpmdb open failed
Symptom
Rpmdb errors are seen during package management installation. They are related to corrupted RPM database.
yum -y install DSM-MicrosoftWindows-7.4-20211108193921.noarch.rpm
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 24446/139984907597632 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
Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
More support for:
IBM Security QRadar SIEM
Component:
Admin Tasks
Software version:
All Versions
Operating system(s):
Linux
Document number:
6568405
Modified date:
12 June 2023
UID
ibm16568405
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