yum -> rpmdb: Locker still has locks

[Paul Dickson]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:23:06 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:

> Paul Dickson wrote:
> > 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
> 
> glibc-common
> 
> >>
> >> 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] 
> > [...]
> 
> You probably have about 67 multiple package entries in your rpm database 
> due to the exit. Maybe it will be the other way, you will get three 
> multi-version entries.

Actually there were no duplicate packages.  I checked before I did the
rebuilddb and only duplicate was ORBit-devel, which I removed.  I checked
again just now, and none.

I'm tempted to believe it's the yum bug that's (randomly?) removing files.

	-Paul