rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries

Problem Fix / November 02, 2019 / By:

Contents

  1. Why does this happen?
  2. Error:
  3. Solution:
    1. Step 1:Take backup of /var/lib/rpm .
    2. Step 2: Remove db file under this directory and  rebuild  RPM database
    3. Step 3:Rebuild Db files.

If yum command throws some errors and rpm says “rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries”, you can apply this action plan.

Why does this happen?

While rpm access the database files, it makes a temporary locker entry with tables while it searches data. If you send a break command this problem can occur because the locker never cleared.

Error:

rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 16a99
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
Unable to connect to Subscription Management Service
rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries

Solution:

Step 1:Take backup of /var/lib/rpm .

#tar cvzf rpmdb-backup.tar.gz /var/lib/rpm

Step 2: Remove db file under this directory and  rebuild  RPM database

#rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*

Step 3:Rebuild Db files.

#rpm –rebuilddb

 

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