[wplug] Transaction lock

[Vanco, Don]

Good point - could be the rpm cron job is running (particualrly if it's a new install) - daily script that builds /var/log/rpmpackages

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From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org on behalf of Jason Jerome
Sent: Wed 7/20/2005 4:19 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] Transaction lock




Have you asked the simple questions?

-are you root?
-is there another package manager open?
-have you tried using the up-to-date module built into Fedora?


--- "Vanco, Don" <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:

> Sounds like your RPM db is munged.
>
> Delete the DB files and rebuild rpm database. (or try to rebuild
> first, then delete and rebuild if that does not work)
>
> Not sure what the syntax is on FC - will either be rpm --rebuilddb or
> rebuilddb
>
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org on behalf of
> Weber, Larry A
> Sent: Wed 7/20/2005 2:43 PM
> To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
> Subject: [wplug] Transaction lock
> 
> I have recently installed Fedora Core 4 and need to add some
> "Extras".  I
> have downloaded the RPM's from the Fedora site but when I try to
> install any
> of their rpm's I get an error message that says, " can't create
> transaction
> lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000".  I checked in this directory and that
> file
> does not exist. There is a .001, .002 and .003.
>
> Any idea what is wrong and how to fix it?
>
> -laweber
>
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