Can someone help me out? (FIXED!)

I keep getting this error and I can not get it to go away.
I've tried deleting the db and rebuilding it. Any suggestions?

[root@ns1 brendancarlson]# yum update
rpmdb: Thread/process 20950/140240989370112 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
CRITICAL:yum.main:

Error: rpmdb open failed