Re: rpm questions

[Jack Bowling <jbinpg shaw ca>]

** Reply to message from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu faw uni-ulm de> on Sat, 01 Mar 2003 06:06:19 +0100


> Am Sam, 2003-03-01 um 00.06 schrieb CM Miller:
> > Is anyone using apt-get for rpms in RH 8.0? 
> I do.
> 
> > Whenever I issue the following command, I get a
> > strange error: 
> > 
> > apt-get install foo 
> > 
> > warning: cannot get exclusive lock on
> > /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> > What does this mean?  All of these directories do
> > exist. 
> 
> This means that something else but apt-rpm has locked your rpm database.
> 
> This typically indicates that
> (a) there might be another process running accessing your rpm database
> in parallel to apt-rpm
> (b) you have a stale file lock on your rpm database.
> (c) you are trying to run "apt-rpm install" without root privileges.
> 
> In case of 
> (a) Terminate all other processes trying access your rpm database in
> parallel to apt-rpm 
> (b) Remove rpm's lock files (rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*) and rerun apt-rpm.
> This typically happens after having interrupted rpm or apt by "Ctrl C".
> (c) Become root.


There might also be an apt-get lock itself from a previous instantiation, so get rid of it:

rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

jb

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Jack Bowling
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