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

[Peter Robinson]

>>>> 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 at 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