cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) ??

[Sharon Kimble]

Dave Stevens wrote:

> Recently I had a yum update problem like this, too. So for this one plugin
> I downloaded an rpm. I don't understand the output below. I've tried
> deleting the pid file to see if that freed up the process but no joy. The
> archive suggests making sure no other process is running. I've logged out
> and back in, which I would have thought would terminate my user processes.
> Anyone?
> 
> Dave
> 
> [dave at athlon downloads]$ rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm
> error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> warning: ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
> key
> ID  a109b1ec
> error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> [dave at athlon downloads]$
> 
Did you try to do it a 'root'?

Sharon.
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