Re: RPM error : Can't create transaction lock on /

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 18:43 +0530, Bala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install mysql devel rpm on RHEL 5 and I'm stuck at this
> error and cant proceed further.
> 
> "error: can't create transaction lock on /"

You may have a trailing lock - ls /var/lib/rpm

Check for other rpm/yum processes running.  If none then:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

Paul