Imagine this
# yum update
https://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/13b91b1efe2a1db71aa132d76383fdb5311887958a910548546d58a5856e2c5d-primary.sqlite.xz: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.oss.ou.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/13b91b1efe2a1db71aa132d76383fdb5311887958a910548546d58a5856e2c5d-primary.sqlite.xz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/13b91b1efe2a1db71aa132d76383fdb5311887958a910548546d58a5856e2c5d-primary.sqlite.xz: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/13b91b1efe2a1db71aa132d76383fdb5311887958a910548546d58a5856e2c5d-primary.sqlite.xz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
And this
# yum update
rpmdb: page 6849: illegal page type or format
rpmdb: PANIC: Invalid argument
rpmdb: Packages: pgin failed for page 6758
error: db4 error(-9494) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
I know right ¯\(ツ)/¯
So it seems your mirror’s are broken, the package DB is out of date and you’re not that happy. Let’s go trough the steps of fixing this. We gonna do this in two steps:
- Cleaning the current repo’s & Cleaning the Package DB;
- Finding and installing the appropriate repo’s
Cleaning the current Repo’s
First we will move the old package DB and clean the cache with these 3 command’s
mv /var/lib/rpm/__db* /tmp/
rpm --rebuilddb
yum clean all
Now remove the old Repo’s
rm -r /etc/yum.repos.d/*
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
Finding and installing the appropriate repo’s
Now the next part is abit manual. You’ll need to find the appropriate RPM package to fix our repo’s. You can get them at the CentOS vault page: http://vault.centos.org . I’m working with CentOS build 1611 here so I used: http://vault.centos.org/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
If you’re unsure on what version you are use cat /etc/centos-release to find out.
Now install the repo using:
rpm -Uvh --force http://vault.centos.org/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
And now you can run the command’s to verrify:
yum makecache fast
yum update