On Thu Mar 13 14:34 +0100, Nicolas Pomarede wrote:
> Just to add my personnal experience with this problem, apart from
> rebooting the PC, each time I had this problem, I was unable to do an 'rpm
> -qa' under a normal user, but it worked under root. Seems like a lock or
> sthg similar was created when rpm ran in a default crontab, and only root
> seems to be able to bypass it. I tried doing some strace as others users
> did, but this really seems to be an rpm problem, not urpmi (it happened on
> a machine that didn't run urpmi).

It happens to me regularly as root...

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