Dennis Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 9:00 am, Teilhard Knight wrote:
>
> You probably left the first instance of urpmi open. You can only run one 
> rpmdrake at a time. Close the unneeded one and have a go again.
> HTH. Dennis M.
in addition to Dennis's post,

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As superuser, enter: 

killall urpmi urpmi.update urpme rpm urpmi.addmedia
rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK /var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK

If that doesn't unlock the database, rebooting is always the
solution.

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from the Wiki:
http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/SysAdmin/Urpmi#RPM_database_locked

HTH
-- 
RickS
"It is common sense to take a method and try it.
 If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
 But above all, try something." -F.D.Roosevelt
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