fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Due to a server crash last night, I'm temporarily setting up my > workstation as a mail server. To that end, I'm trying to install > some rpms for clamav. I tried the normal rpm install: > rpm -Uvh <rpm name> > and it seemed to hang. I terminated the shell in which this was > running, and tried again, and got the following: > warning: waiting for transaction lock > error: can't create transaction lock > > The process that was running the original rpm is still around, even > when trying to kill-9 it: > root 31879 1 0 09:15 ? 00:00:00 rpm -Uvh > clamav-0.74-1.i386.rpm > > Any thoughts on: > 1) How to kill the previous process when kill -9 doesn't? > 2) Any other way to get this rpm to install? > > TIA, > -Don In case anyone's keeping score, I believe I found the problem. I was doing all this in the first place because the main server was down; this server was hosting an NFS-available file system. The workstation I am now using did in fact mount that foreign system; I hadn't unmounted it when the server went down. This mounted but unreachable filesystem seems to have been the root of the problem. All is fine now. -Don
