Facing issues when updating packages on RHEL System? Error logs similar to below log that we encountered on one of our CentOS systems.

error: db5 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 – Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed

 

Steps:

1. Log in to the machine using root account where you are facing the issue.

2. Stash all the headers files on which yum uses for dependency resolution

yum clean headers

 

3. Clean yum packages cache

yum clean packages

 

4. Clean metadata

yum clean metadata

 

5. Clean dbcache

yum clean dbcache

 

6. Clean remaining things

yum clean all

 

7. Remove clean all RPM database files

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*

 

8. Rebuilt RPM Database

rpm -vv –rebuilddb

 

9. Now run the update command

yum update

 

With this rpmdb open failed error will be fixed.

 

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