yum -> rpmdb: Locker still has locks

[Paul Dickson]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:53:37 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:

> Yesterday I did a daily devel update via yum (yum-3.0.1).  I appears to
> have completed normally except for two messages following the "Complete!"
> message:
> 
> Complete!
> rpmdb: Locker still has locks
> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> 
> Today I'm getting set of:
> 
> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locks
> error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
> 
> where Providename changes to other indices (eg Conflictname, Dirnames, etc)
> 
> 
> The yum update update is still proceeding inspite of these error messages.
> 

I rebooted, ran "rpm --rebuilddb", and I'm applying today's updates.
>From the current run of yum:

[...]
Installing for dependencies:
 glibc                   i686       2.5.90-6         development       5.1 M
 glibc-common            i386       2.5.90-6         development        16 M
 openoffice.org-core     i386       1:2.1.0-2.4      development        89 M
 qt                      i386       1:3.3.7-1.fc7    development       3.6 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      4 Package(s)         
Update      33 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 165 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/5): openoffice.org-gra 100% |=========================| 205 kB    00:00     
(2/5): openoffice.org-cor 100% |=========================|  89 MB    02:05     
(3/5): scribus-1.3.3.5-1. 100% |=========================| 7.6 MB    00:09     
(4/5): agg-2.4-3.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 141 kB    00:00     
(5/5): x264-0.0.0-0.2.200 100% |=========================| 415 kB    00:01     
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating  : yum                          ####################### [ 1/70] 
  Installing: glibc-common                                         [ 2/70]warning: /etc/default/nss created as /etc/default/nss.rpmnew
  Installing: glibc-common                 ####################### [ 2/70] 
  Installing: glibc                                                [ 3/70]warning: /etc/ld.so.conf created as /etc/ld.so.conf.rpmnew
  Installing: glibc                                                [ 3/70]warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew
  Installing: glibc                                                [ 3/70]warning: /etc/nsswitch.conf created as /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew
  Installing: glibc                                                [ 3/70]warning: /etc/rpc saved as /etc/rpc.rpmorig
  Installing: glibc                        ###################     [ 3/70]warning: /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules created as /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.rpmnew
  Installing: glibc                        ####################### [ 3/70] 
[...]


Funny how my system can boot and run normally WITHOUT glibc installed. :-)

	-Paul