Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Skunk Worx <skunkworx(a)verizon.net> writes:
> Seems like some F7 machines that sit for awhile do this.
>
> # yum clean all
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
> rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 912
> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
Turn selinux off (not just permissive but disabled), reboot and the
problem will go away.
I found that yum/rpm would lock up within a day if I had selinux set
to permissive. With it is disabled completely the problem appears
gone, even after many days uptime.
-wolfgang
Did you see avc messages in /var/log/audit/audit.log?