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

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

You can run rpm under strace and examine what strace
has to say.

Valery
--- Bala <balaknathan gmail com> wrote:

> I removed the db files and checked if some other
> rpm/yum processes are
> running on the system. There are no other processes
> active that may
> potentially cause a problem. I have deleted the
> __db* files under
> /var/lib/rpm directory and tried running again. Yet
> no luck.
> 
> The rpm version i'm using is 4.4.2.
> 
> # rpm --version
> RPM version 4.4.2
> #
> 
> Could this be a problem with the rpm version itself
> ? Would you suggest
> upgrading/downgrading to a different version ?
> 
> Bala
> 
> On 5/30/07, Tony Earnshaw <tonni hetnet nl> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Tony Earnshaw
> > Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl
> >
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