-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 19:26, Stephen K�hn wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:13, dave needham wrote: > > hi margot > > i think it was john or sumone to goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ > > follow instructions which was copy and paste txt which i did but i found > > some small print which said urpmi.removemedia -a if you had broadband > > which i have but i did it last after the txt so im not sure if it worked > > or not.now i get an error message saying media locked.. > > Quick fix: remove the media FIRST, then reboot the machine, then re-add > from the urpmi website; that will give you fresh sources, and then you > can begin updating without the database being locked mate. > If your database is locked you need to get rid of the lock -
killall urpmi urpmi.update urpme rpm urpmi.addmedia rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK /var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK but don't forget that it is locked when Software Installer is open, so if you had it open, just close it and try again. Another tip - I would put your DVD source back - you can still use it if for any reason the mirrors are down - and just disable it in MCC > Software Management > Media Management. Just remove the check-mark. I prefer this to removing it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8rD5kFAvMr/nNX8RAsPFAJ4nevZ+YFZwClfdgZspIXVigeL7iQCeLaxk xxnWhS8rPs6wnVdDSryx5M8= =lLsG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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