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