On Monday 15 October 2007 09:55:05 am Patrick Shanahan wrote: > A friend w/10.3 i586 install is having a problem with yast2. The > sw_single option provides a pop-up with: > > Accessing the Package Management Failed > > Another process is accessing the package database. > Package management cannot be used now. > > Would you like to continue without having access to > the package management or retry to access it? > > Continue Retry > > Retry fails and continue is useless as w/o access there is NO > functionality. > > No lock is apparent and rebuilding the rpmdb solves nothing. No > instance of rpm or yast is present. > > what to do ???
I wasn't sure about lock files, but it is easy to reproduce error by running 2 processes that access package database and look in y2log: 2007-10-15 11:30:46 <1> linux-d2eh(17659) [zypp] ZYppFactory.cc(lockerPid):180 read: Lockfile /var/run/zypp.pid has pid 17499 (our pid: 17659) Look in /var/run/ for stale yast.pid or zypp.pid. The other source of problem might be running updater applet. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
