selinux hogs locks ? Re: f7 : yum fails with rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries

[Skunk Worx]

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> Skunk Worx <skunkworx at verizon.net> writes:
>>  
>>> Seems like some F7 machines that sit for awhile do this.
>>>
>>> # yum clean all
>>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>>> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
>>> rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 912
>>> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument
>>> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory 
>>> (12)
>>> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>>>     
>>
>> Turn selinux off (not just permissive but disabled), reboot and the
>> problem will go away.
>>
>> I found that yum/rpm would lock up within a day if I had selinux set
>> to permissive.  With it is disabled completely the problem appears
>> gone, even after many days uptime.
>>
>> -wolfgang
>>   
> Did you see avc messages in /var/log/audit/audit.log?
> 

I don't see anything that looks like yum or rpm related, my log is much 
smaller.

For now I am staying with enforcing unless I have to change, I don't 
mind doing some testing with this email machine.

Note : tried init 1, init 3 but it's not enough

appears to require a reboot.

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John