--- On Thu, 11/13/08, pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx > 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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
