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

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 15:06 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> 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*

Also, just to add for RHEL your first stop really should be support.

Paul