>>> 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.
My errors (one of the bugs mentioned above) are from a clean F-10
preview install and it seems to fall on its butt quite regularly.
Peter