It appears that the RPM database needs rebuilding if a yum process is killed
prematurely, since it probably had the RPM db open and now it’s in an inconsistent
state.

The steps :

• Kill all yum and rpm processes.
• rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
• rpm --rebuilddb (add -vv if you want to see what it’s doing)
• Retry yum update.

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