On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 12:49 -0700, Nina Pham wrote: > I was intalling some rpms, then it got stuck. I follow the instruction > on the internet to delete the db files for rpm, and rebuild. So I > deleted rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*, then > #rpm -vv rebuilddb > waring: waiting for transaction lock > > and stuck there, so I do Ctrl_Z to exit. Then Do rpm -e > kerio-mailserver, get the same warning, and error can not create > transaction lock. > > Do you have any idea what happened? and what I need to do to fix it? Ctrl-Z suspends but does not kill the process. "jobs" will show suspended and background processes. "kill %1" will kill #1, etc. (kill -9 ... only if that fails). Don't be too quick to think rpm is "stuck" - may seem to be doing nothing for extended periods but is actually just busy. Try "top" in another console before acting. Do "ps auxww | grep rpm" to see what other rpm processes may be hanging around. Phil
