Re: [CentOS] Problem running yum update command

On 04/05/2014 08:46 PM, H wrote:

I am running CentOS 6.5 in a VZ container and today when I wanted to run yum update command I receive the following error messages:

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) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm CRITICAL:yum.main:

We have in the past seen openvz containers with thread restrictions which prevent yum/rpm from functioning properly. If the host is implementing a thread limit it's entirely possible that this is the cause, as yum and rpm start quite a few threads.