Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm
Don Levey
fedora-list at the-leveys.us
Fri Jul 9 14:25:09 UTC 2004
Due to a server crash last night, I'm temporarily setting up my workstation
as a mail server. 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
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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