Description of problem:


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How reproducible:


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Actual results:


Expected results:  I was having trouble updating glbic to the latest version using software update.  I went to the terminal and ran upgrade from the root and this error came up after.
Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.YumBaseError'>
Error Value: Error: rpmdb open failed
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3612, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3608, in main
    backend = PackageKitYumBackend('', lock=True)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 264, in __init__
    self.doLock()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 350, in doLock
    self.yumbase.doLock(YUM_PID_FILE)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 1585, in doLock
    if self.conf.uid != 0:
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 831, in <lambda>
    conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 277, in _getConfig
    startupconf = config.readStartupConfig(fn, root)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 859, in readStartupConfig
    startupconf.releasever = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py, line 1004, in _getsysver
    raise Errors.YumBaseError("Error: " + str(e))



Additional info:
[root@USB ~]# yum
rpmdb: Thread/process 2853/3077998272 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main: