On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM, <pmatilai@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@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.