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

[pmatilai at laiskiainen.org]

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 -