cPhulkd Reported Down with "“/bin/rpm” reported error code “1” when it ended" found in the cPanel Error Log

Symptoms

Notifications are received reporting cPhulkd being down, though the cause is not explicitly clear. 

Description 

You may issue the following command to observe the failer, as reported by journalctl: 

journalctl -u cphulkd --no-pager

Here, you may observe the following error: 

cphulkd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a

While within the cPanel error log, you'll find corresponding errors reporting: 

Cpanel::Exception::ProcessFailed::Error/(XID 7wzxvq) “/bin/rpm” reported error code “1” when it ended: error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 31311/140435644479552 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library

This indicates that the RPM database is corrupted and needs to be addressed. 

Workaround

You may issue the following script, in order to rebuild the RPM database: 

/scripts/find_and_fix_rpm_issues