On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:56, Alexandre Strube wrote: > Em Qui, 2004-02-26 Ãs 13:55, Mike Bos escreveu: > > > > can someone help me solving these error's? I can bypass them with -f but that > > doesn't seem so elegant. > > warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages > > Did RPM failed before this? If that's the case, you will have to remove > the lock, which is a file I don't know what :-) The files are: /var/lib/rpm/__* That's two underlines before the asterisk. They are typically of the form __db.XXX, where the XXX is '001' ... '999'. So, as root: rm /var/lib/rpm/__* or rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* if you are comfortable enough to not have to be prompted to delete each file... :-) HTH, Marc Schwartz
