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

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:32 -0700, Valery Reznic wrote:
> Noone, root included can
> open("/", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = -1
> EISDIR (Is a directory)
> 
> But I have no idea how fix it :(

/ shouldn't be the transaction lock - can you do

rpm -E '%{_rpmlock_path}'

This should be defined in /usr/lib/rpm/macros - have you modified this
file?

Paul