yum: Lock table is out of available locker entries

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 18:54 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On FC7:
>    [root at mbrc32 ~]# yum list
>    Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>    rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
>    rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 912
>    ...
> 
> Goog informs me that it is a database problem.  I
> get it only from yum.  Any suggestions?

Might be the old RPM db lock problem.

1) Become superuser
2) Make sure no instances or 'rpm' or 'yum' are running
3) rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
4) rpm --rebuilddb

poc