Dave Stevens wrote: > Recently I had a yum update problem like this, too. So for this one plugin > I downloaded an rpm. I don't understand the output below. I've tried > deleting the pid file to see if that freed up the process but no joy. The > archive suggests making sure no other process is running. I've logged out > and back in, which I would have thought would terminate my user processes. > Anyone? > > Dave > > [dave@athlon downloads]$ rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm > error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > warning: ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.lvn.0.5.pre1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, > key > ID a109b1ec > error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > [dave@athlon downloads]$ > Did you try to do it a 'root'? Sharon. -- 17:28:11 up 4 days, 8:59, 1 user, load average: 1.83, 1.40, 1.29 Linux is like a wigwam, no windows, no gates, apache inside. Fedora Core 2, KDE 3.2.2, OpenOffice 1.1.3 Registered Linux user 334501
