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

[pmatilai at laiskiainen.org]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, José Matos wrote:

> On Saturday 04 October 2008 02:09:05 Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> Dear fellow testers,
>>
>> I tried to use xterm but it was not installed, so I wanted to yum install
>> it, and I got message in the title.
>>
>> [root at riohigh ~]# yum install xterm
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB
>> library rpmdb: unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region
>> error: cannot open Name index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
>> rpmdb: unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize mutex region
>> error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory
>> (12) rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley
>> DB library
>
> rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
>
> should allow you to continue. At least it does to me. :-)

Are you by any chance using ext4 as the filesystem? There seems to be a 
pattern developing here: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468437 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471411

 	- Panu -