Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm

[Giandomenico De Tullio]

On 09/07/2004 21:10:50, Don Levey wrote:
> 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
__db.00?  _ARE_ lock file :P

> lsof (lsof | grep 31879) just seems to hang.  Maybe it's reboot time.
in initscripts there is a remove ( #3 ) of lockfiles

@FC1:

 ./rc.sysinit:653:rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*


^.^