Command: "yum update" crashes with OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

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Issue

Error was: rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

# yum update

The command gives now the following output:
Resolving Dependencies

[...]

OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/var/lib/yum/yumdb/n/0006c01300e2e61b4c470d3a3df35c5d9082408d-numactl-2.0.7-6.el6-x86_64/checksum_type'

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Any Versions)

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