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

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni hetnet nl>]

Paul Nasrat skrev, on 29-05-2007 16:10:

> > > 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.

Simply to collate: I have no problems with this on CentOS 5 
(mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1) or Fedora FC6 (mysql-devel-5.0.27-1.fc6) - both 
are the versions yum has updated to. Just as well, since there's no 
official support on either :)

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl