In this tutorial, How to resolve Error: rpmdb open failed Error In CentOS. I was testing on nginx web server in Centos 7 VM Linode . Unfortunaely, I have install new package with yum command , I got this error message: error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 3050/139803232012096 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 It seemes like YUM broke down. I have not run any yum command. Solve problem, just do the following steps.   First backup the rpm database using command as root user: # mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp Run the following command: # yum clean all # yum update Clean backup # rm -i /tmp/__db* I hope this helps you.