apt-get and yum stalling

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 21.07.2005 schrieb Lokrin um 16:49:

> 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?

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


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