Packages¶

Dependency Resolution Failure / Duplicate Packages¶

If e.g. an update attempt ends up in something like

yum update

Loaded plugins: langpacks, search-disabled-repos
Resolving Dependencies
...
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: sssd-dbus-1.16.5-10.el7_9.12.x86_64 (@rhel7)
        Requires: sssd-common = 1.16.5-10.el7_9.12
        Removing: sssd-common-1.16.5-10.el7_9.12.x86_64 (@rhel7)
            sssd-common = 1.16.5-10.el7_9.12
        Updated By: sssd-common-1.16.5-10.el7_9.15.x86_64 (rhel7)
            sssd-common = 1.16.5-10.el7_9.15
        Removing: sssd-common-1.16.5-10.el7_9.13.x86_64 (@rhel7)
...

best check if one of these packages is twice listed as installed:

rpm -qa sssd-common
sssd-common-1.16.5-10.el7_9.13.x86_64
sssd-common-1.16.5-10.el7_9.12.x86_64

Now you can try to remove one or both packages, maybe you need to remove also packages which depend on this one. Then install it again.

Berkeley DB Issue¶

BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY¶

If the error message is

error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 21389/140229907089216 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:

Error: rpmdb open failed

then do

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

BDB0091 DB_VERSION_MISMATCH¶

For

RPM: error: db5 error(-30969) from dbenv->open: BDB0091 DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
RPM: error: cannot open Packages index using db5 -  (-30969)
RPM: error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Error: Could not run transaction.

do

yum clean all
rpm --rebuilddb

Rebuild RPM Database¶

When yum, dnf or rpm hang or have errors pointing to a problem with their database, then follow the Guide to rebuild a corrupted RPM database

RPM Integrity Check¶

The integratity of installed package can be checked with rpm:

rpm -Vv pciutils
.........    /usr/sbin/lspci
.........    /usr/sbin/setpci
.........    /usr/sbin/update-pciids
.........    /usr/share/doc/pciutils-3.5.1
.........  d /usr/share/doc/pciutils-3.5.1/COPYING
.........  d /usr/share/doc/pciutils-3.5.1/ChangeLog
.........  d /usr/share/doc/pciutils-3.5.1/README
.........  d /usr/share/doc/pciutils-3.5.1/pciutils.lsm
.........  d /usr/share/man/man8/lspci.8.gz
.........  d /usr/share/man/man8/setpci.8.gz
.........  d /usr/share/man/man8/update-pciids.8.gz

Running rpm -Vav will verify all installed packages and take a long time. See the man page for details on the output format. Changes, especially in configuration files, can be normal, though.