What I would really like to understand is why this happenned. Any pointers?
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main
(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
self.doConfigSetup
(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 102, in doConfigSetup
self.conf = config.readMainConfig(fn, root)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 589, in readMainConfig
vars['releasever'] = _getsysver(earlyconf.installroot, earlyconf.distroverpkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 689, in _getsysver
idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed
