How to solve ‘DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery’ in CentOS

While rolling out updates on some servers, and without apparent reason, as yum hadn’t failed or thrown any errors before, it failed with DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery: YUM is failing and not accepting any command. While the reason for my YUM database corruption isn’t known, the solution is quite simple and easy to […]