rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library

[José Matos]

On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:45:34 Rick Stevens wrote:
> "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*" deletes the RPM database.  You really should
> follow that up with a "rpm --rebuilddb" or RPM will get very confused.

I don't think so at least for some time.

BTW this can be found in the initscripts (/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit)

# Clean up /var.
rm -rf /var/lock/cvs/* /var/run/screen/*
find /var/lock /var/run ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* &> /dev/null
rm -f /var/gdm/.gdmfifo &> /dev/null

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José Abílio