RickS wrote:
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
Also check to make sure urpmi the process isn't running using top :)
Paul
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