Re: rpm error " can't create transaction lock"

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To: nina@xxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: rpm error " can't create transaction lock"
From: Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:21:07 -0300
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Nina Pham wrote:

HI, what does it mean when I do #rpm -U software.rpm, it turns backs with message "error: can't create transaction lock" ?

It means that there's some process already using the rpm database. Check if yum , rpm or up2date are running or if there are any zombie processes from any of these programs.

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Pedro Macedo

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