--- On Thu, 11/13/08, pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org <pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org> wrote:
From: pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org <pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org>
Subject: Re: rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB
library
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Cc: olivares14031(a)yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 9:36 AM
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
- Panu -
Yes,
But rebooting fixes the situation when I encounter this. For some reason the message does
not appear again. Sometimes it gives me message that yum segfaults but a reboot cures it
:)
Regards,
Antonio