<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alexander Dalloz wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1121957882.25055.26.camel@serendipity.dogma.lan" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Am Do, den 21.07.2005 schrieb Lokrin um 16:49: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The main sympton, other than just stalling/freezing is the error message: Can not get shared lock on var/lib/rpm/Packages How do I clear this error? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You need to be root to install packages. And no other rpm operation has to lock the rpm_db at that time (i.e. 2 competing yum runs). Alexander </pre> </blockquote> I am trying to run as root. This problem just came up this past week. It also affects synaptic and the Red Hat Upgraade Agent. Basically they start but freeze also. As far as I know everything is stopped, Ok, PS showed me 4 vesions of YUM, 4 versions of APT-GET and 1 version of RPM running. KILL pid didn't work, but KILL -9 pid did. Now to see if things work... Ok, RH update agent starts but freezes when it is building a list of updated rpm packages. Synaptic starts with the basic screen in the background and an hourglass rotating and stays there. Well, after rebooting (and the above) things are now working. Thanks </body> </html>