>>>> 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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
