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

[José Matos]

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 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. :-)

> What does all of that mean?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antonio

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José Abílio