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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Horst H. von Brand wrote:

> Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
>> Jos?? 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.
>
> It doesn't. The database lives in files called Basename and so on. file(1)
> tells you the files with names starting with uppercase are BDB files, the
> rest is assorted data.

Actually the only thing that really matters is /var/lib/rpm/Packages. 
Basenames and such are just indexes that can be rebuilt as long as 
Packages exists as is intact.

 	- Panu -