yum and memory

[Vu Pham]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:34 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> This has nothing to do with memory, its the first error that you need to 
> run down:
> http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg251411.html
> http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39323&forum=10&post_id=179187

Thanks, that's it. I did change the selinux to permissive last night nad
started having this problem after that.



> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> > My server has 1 G of memory and 2g of swap.
> >
> > At the time I had the problem posted in this email, the memory snapshot
> > was as below.
> > Mem:   1034840k total,   900176k used,   134664k free,     3708k buffers
> > Swap:  2031608k total,   285212k used,  1746396k free,   350240k cached
> >
> > When I ran yum to install screen, I got the below error and one of the
> > messages is "cannot allocate memory" while there were plenty of memory,
> > at least more than 1 g of swap.
> >
> > Then I wrote a test program that asked for 1 G of memory and it ran just
> > fine. "top" also showed a lot of swap space allocated when the test
> > program ran ( I let it sleep for 5 seconds so I can see top status ).
> >
> > Why does yum complain about memory ?
> >
> > Or maybe the problem is something else ? I just got to FC some days ago
> > so I must be wrong somewhere.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Vu
> >
> >
> > [root at home2 ~]# yum install screen
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
> > rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 7ee
> > 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
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
> >    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> >  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 82, in main
> >    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
> >  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 146, in getOptionsConfig
> >    errorlevel=opts.errorlevel)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 153, in
> > _getConfig
> >    self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 601, in
> > readMainConfig
> >    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
> > startupconf.distroverpkg)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 664, in
> > _getsysver
> >    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
> > TypeError: rpmdb open failed
> >
> >
> >
> >
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