rpm, yum, dnf issues under unsupported Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • After an RPM database rebuild, like rpm --rebuilddb, commands like rpm & yum fail and/or hang.

  • RHEL 8 (and Fedora) systems have following errors with dnf immediately.

    [root@win10 Temp]# dnf list
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
error: db5 error(12) from dbenv->open: Cannot allocate memory
error: db5 error(22) from dbenv->close: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Error: Error: rpmdb open failed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 8, 9, 10+
  • Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  • Whitewater Foundry, Linux Enterprise (WLE)

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