rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Nov 13 22:04:37 UTC 2008
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Rick Stevens wrote:
> José Matos wrote:
>> On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:04:13 Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>> a reboot cures it :)
>>
>> If I am not mistaken the reboot removes the existing locks. I even think
>> that there is a place that does really this:
>>
>> rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
>>
>> That has been the case for all versions of Fedora and even before in Red
>> Hat Linux...
>
> "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*" deletes the RPM database.
No it certainly does not delete the RPM database :) The __db*.* files are
Berkeley DB environment which contains among other things the database
locking information.
> You really should follow that up with a "rpm --rebuilddb" or RPM will
> get very confused.
Database rebuild is very rarely necessary.
- Panu -
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