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>> When we tried to install any rpm with "sudo rpm -ivh ...", the command crash with an error "error: db3cput:db3.c:1461: dbcursor->put(-30973): BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery”.
> This is the on;y trpotyrd retort msg.

This is the only reported error msg.

> 
> Unfortunately, the problem in need of solving happened on the previous rpm
> invocation, not this invocation.
> 
> Note that rpm-5.4.15 already automates the fixup necessary for “… run database recovery.”
> so there is something else systematically (i.e. like configuration) that prevented the
> automatic mixup from succeeding.
> 
> hth
> 
> 73 de Jeff