cannot import keys
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu Jul 5 17:16:54 UTC 2007
At 9:52 PM -0600 7/4/07, Frank Cox wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
>"charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> when i attempt, (as root) for example,
>> rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub
>> i get:
>> cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>
>Do you have the automatic yum doodad (whose name I can't remember offhand)
>running as a daemon?
yum-updatesd
>Are you sure you're root?
Also, possibly there are stale locks. The locks can be removed with `rm -f
/var/lib/rpm/__db*`, but it is safer to reboot, which will remove the locks
at a time when it is certainly safe. And the advice to use lsof first is
good.
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