Did this as a fix and seems to be ok again now. - cd /var/lib/rpm rm -f __db* rpm --rebuilddb <div>On 25/03/06, Craig Preston <<a href="mailto:duffman23@gmail.com"> duffman23@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have installed FC5 and all was working fine. However this morning I did a yum update and it caused a fatal error halfway through the install. Now when i run yum I get the following error - 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 574, in readMainConfig vars['releasever'] = _getsysver(earlyconf.installroot, earlyconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 674, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed I'm not an expert in Linux troubleshooting, any help would be appreciated. </blockquote></div>