On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 13:01, Phil Schaffner wrote: > 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. Also , you might try installing it with rpm -ivh -> The h will print out hashes when it's doing it's stuff. Sort of just gives you an indication of progress. > > Phil --
