Bug#852151: error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - Input/output error (5)

[Luca Boccassi]

On 29 January 2017 at 17:15, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> Loading new nvidia-legacy-304xx-304.134 DKMS files...
> error: db5 error(5) from dbenv->open: Input/output error
> error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - Input/output error (5)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /root/.rpmdb
>
> Which goes on for at least four screens!
>
> Maybe related, but I don't see why I should have to mess with rpm stuff..
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=127067
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721914

Do you have the rpm package installed?