On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:17:19 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:

> Went to run Yum and got the following :-
>
> [root@xxxxxxxxxxx ~]# yum
> 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 589, in
> readMainConfig
> vars['releasever'] = _getsysver(earlyconf.installroot,
> earlyconf.distroverpkg)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 689, in
> _getsysver
> idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
> [root@xxxxxxxxxxxx ~]#
>
> Anyone know whats gone wrong ?
>
> and how to fix it if possible ?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Aaron

Sounds like the database might be corrupted.
Have you tried: yum clean all