Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm

[miah]

RPM holds its lock files in /var/lib/rpm, the locks are named like
db__*.  rm those files, then rpm --rebuilddb and you should be fine.
Kill off the running rpm command if possible.  Be careful that you
don't rm any files other than the db__* files.


-miah

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:58:00PM -0400, Don Levey wrote:
> Due to a server crash last night, I'm temporarily setting up my
> workstation as a mail server, running Fedora Core 2.  To that end, I'm
> trying to
> install some rpms for clamav.
> 
> I tried the normal rpm install:
> 	rpm -Uvh <rpm name>
> and it seemed to hang.  I terminated the shell in which this was running,
> and tried again, and got the following:
> 	warning: waiting for transaction lock
> <ctrl-c>
> 	error: can't create transaction lock
> 
> The process that was running the original rpm is still around, even
> when trying to kill-9 it:
> 	root     31879     1  0 09:15 ?        00:00:00 rpm -Uvh
> clamav-0.74-1.i386.rpm
> 
> Any thoughts on:
> 1) How to kill the previous process when kill -9 doesn't?
> 2) Any other way to get this rpm to install?
> 
> TIA,
>  -Don
> 
> 
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