On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 12:12 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: > OK, I think I followed your directions, Derek. The following is what was > downloaded. > > urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://knight.zarb.org/pub/plf/mandrake/9.2 > with hdlist.cz > urpmi.addmedia --update updates > > ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ > with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia main > > ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPM >S with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia contrib > > ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 with > ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz > > After doing the download I again tried to run the update in software > manager. Initially it said downloading urpmi... Then I got the > following error message. > > Fatal error > A fatal error occurred: urpmi database locked. > > I'm assuming that if the urpmi database weren't, or hadn't, "locked", I > would have been successful this time. > How do I unlock urpmi database? Or is that even what I really need to > do? > > Again thanks for all the help! > > LTR }}:{( > [EMAIL PROTECTED] That source for plf seems bad It does not respond if you put the ftp address in a browser. Remove your entry for plf with urpmi.removemedia plf and try this one
urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz The lock file is the hidden file /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK You can just delete it. You might also find it more informative if you do your updates from the command line instead of the GUI urpmi.update updates && urpmi --update --auto-select will do the trick. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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