Re: [newbie] urpmi database locked (solved)

[Azhar]

thanks Rosemary,
my problem solved alredy, i did bellow:

while installing programs with urpmi you sometimes get an 'error' which says:
"URPMI DATABASE LOCKED"
This is normal while you're using the database (installing, removing using urpmi)
there are 2 simple lines that solve this problem:

# rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK"
# rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK"
Those rules will remove the 'locks' from the RPM database. Only use it when URPMI is NOT installing or removing a program.

To make things easy, and we like things easy, i wrote myself a little script. Open your text editor as root and save the little script as 'urpmi.unlock' in '/usr/bin/'

$ su
password

# kwrite
past the following text in a new file and save it in:
/usr/bin

code:

#!/bin/bash
echo "";
echo "Only root can unlock the URPMI database.";

echo "Starting with the removal of URPMI locks:";

rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK";
echo "     rm -f '/var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK'...";
rm -f "/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK";
echo "     rm -f '/var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK'..."


echo "URPMI DATABASE UNLOCKED!";
echo "Happy installing!"
echo ""

note:
"http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php?action="">"

 

There's some helpful stuff here about urpmi, and somewhere includes the
command to unlock the database.
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#Quicklist_of_common_tasks

I am not sure - but if the command fails a reboot does the trick.
Others will correct me I hope ...

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Regard,
Azhar