Anyone using DBD Tables Under CentOS 4.2?

Upgrade crashed my server; cannot believe I am the only person.

[AlexK]

Back on the 14 Oct [webmasterworld.com] an auto-update via YUM from CentOS 4.1 to 4.2 crashed MySQL:

051014 10:49:40 mysqld started
051014 10:49:40 [ERROR] bdb: malloc: Cannot allocate memory: 3435973880
051014 10:49:40 [ERROR] bdb: PANIC: Cannot allocate memory
051014 10:49:40 [ERROR] bdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
051014 10:49:40 [ERROR] bdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
051014 10:49:40 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43635
051014 10:49:40 [ERROR] Can't init databases
051014 10:49:40 [ERROR] Aborting

It was fixed at the time by putting

skip-bdb

into my.cnf (InnoDB turns out to work fine).

Having tried every option that I can think of in my.cnf, I still cannot get mysql to start with BDB active, and seem therefore to have lost all access to all the work that has already been done with these tables.

Surely to God I am not the only person trying to use BDB tables under CentOS 4.2? If some-one else *is* successfully using the tables, then it is my system. If not, then it is (?) CentOS.

Anyone?