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Originally Posted by John VV
once you run "--rebuilddb" the old database is removed
you need "yum update" to update what is in the installed DB and the rpm db
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Nothing could be farther from the truth!
The "__db.*" files that are removed are just the rpm db
lock information files for managing transaction locks on the database. It is all the
other files in that directory that are the actual Berkeley DB files.
"yum update" is for updating
packages, and will not work if the database of installed packages is broken.