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

[Jason Farrell]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM, <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Aha - ext4 root here as well.

rpmdb corruption first started happening again for me on F9 around November
10th, and looking back at the yum.log an updates-testing kernel from a few
days earlier

   Nov 07 08:49:30 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.4-26.fc9.x86_64

I've had to rm /var/lib/rpm/__* 4 times in the past few days to allow
yum/rpm to continue.
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