Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Try rebooting to get the kernel to clear the lock out of the file
system?

-derek

"Don Levey" <lug at the-leveys.us> writes:

> 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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