John E. Perry wrote: > Hi, > > My opensuse updater suddenly started showing the yellow triangle with > the exclamation point a few days ago. When I try to clear it, it exits > with the message "Another process is accessing the package database. > Package management cannot be used now." > > ps -e | grep ast > > shows only something called "master" running, so it doesn't appear to be > yast. > > I can't get either the updater or yast to run without rebooting the > machine. What else could be locking the database? > > John Perry > I've seen this happen, usually after having done something under yast related to software management or update. This works, without booting:
As root - Ensure that the updater applet is NOT running (well, it wouldn't be in your case) ps -ef | grep yast If you have a copy of yast running someplace, exit it , or kill it. (kill -9 <pid>) ps -ef | grep y2base Same thing. ps -ef | grep zyp You probably DO have a detached instance of zypper (the updater) running. Kill it. Re-run the starter applet. It should come up and start an immediate update check. I just did all this stuff half an hour ago. I hope that helps, Daniel
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