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

[Rick Stevens]

José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:04:13 Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>  a reboot cures it :)
> 
> If I am not mistaken the reboot removes the existing locks. I even think that 
> there is a place that does really this:
> 
> rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
> 
> That has been the case for all versions of Fedora and even before in Red Hat 
> Linux...

"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.
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