yum and rpm commands fail with `cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm`
Issue
- DB5 error while yum upgrade to existing packages.
- DB5 error while upgrading existing packages using
rpm/yum
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8 (uses Berkeley DB for rpmdb)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, 10 (uses SQLite for rpmdb)
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