Bug 57851

Summary:	rpm stops working permanently when disk space is temporarily exhausted
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	izv
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description izv 2001-12-28 07:07:44 UTC

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Description of problem:
all rpm operations (including simple ones like rpm -q package) fail after
disk space is exhausted.  the problem continues even when more disk space
is available later.

removing a file /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 (zero size, presumably libdb temp
file) fixes the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fill up disk containing /var/lib/rpm so that there is no space remaining
2. run rpm -qa (it fails with an error message)
3. free up some disk space
4. run rpm -qa (it still fails with an error message, see below)


Actual Results:  rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db3 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily
unavailable (11)


Expected Results:  rpm prints out list of packages

Additional info:

removing the file /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 (zero size, presumably libdb temp
file) fixes the problem

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-12-28 17:04:01 UTC

Try
	rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
	rpm --rebuilddb
Please reopen this bug if the above does not fix.