rpmdb DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

When running yum update on a CentOS server, i get following error.

[root@ip-172-30-0-39 ~]# yum update
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 12797/46913889995840 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 -  (-30973)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed
[root@ip-172-30-0-39 ~]#

To fix it, run

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*