Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm

[dave at microway.com (David Backeberg)]

Can you just delete the lock file? You might try checking /var/lock or /tmp 
for it...

On Friday 09 July 2004 14:13, Don Levey wrote:
> Derek wrote:
> > Try rebooting to get the kernel to clear the lock out of the file
> > system?
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > "Don Levey" <lug at the-leveys.us> writes:
>
> ...
>
> >> 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?
>
> That was the next step, absent other suggestions.
> I'm reluctant to do that, though - reminds me too much of MS...
>
>  -Don
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