apt-get and yum stalling

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• Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:49:24 -0700
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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?

Thanks

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