Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm

[Don Levey]

fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> On 09/07/2004 16:25:09, Don Levey wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on:
>> 1) How to kill the previous process when kill -9 doesn't? remove
>> "stale" lockfile ? ^.-
>
>> 2) Any other way to get this rpm to install? (see 1. ) ;p
>
>   3) rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>
>
> ^.^

Hmm... I'm a little reluctant to try #3.
I'm working on finding a stale lock file now, though trying to do it through
lsof (lsof | grep 31879) just seems to hang.  Maybe it's reboot time.
 -Don