rpmdb panic - help?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Marc M writes:

> What I would really like to understand is why this happenned.   Any 
> pointers?  
> 
> [root at 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 

Your rpm database is corrupted.

Try "rpm --rebuilddb".

If this doesn't work, you're boned.

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