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

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Thu, 11/13/08, pmatilai at laiskiainen.org <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:

> From: pmatilai at laiskiainen.org <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>
> Subject: Re: rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: olivares14031 at yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 9:36 AM
> 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 -

Yes,

But rebooting fixes the situation when I encounter this.  For some reason the message does not appear again.  Sometimes it gives me message that yum segfaults but a reboot cures it :)

Regards,

Antonio