Error: rpmdb open failed with cPanel

This can occur with older packages sitting on your drive. Try running the following:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb
yum clean all
yum update

 

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