Urpmi Locked?

ddrfreak · 12-12-2004, 10:05 AM

Whenever I try to download anything through urpmi it says urpmi locked. What do i do?

salparadise · 12-12-2004, 10:31 AM

run "urpmi.update -a" as root
if that fails check the Media Manager in the Software section of the Mandrake control panel and make sure the sources are "enabled"
if that fails
reboot and try again

(just to check... you are running urpmi as root?
because it won't work for an ordinary user - without setting up a sudo account)

reddazz · 12-12-2004, 10:58 AM

Did you try to use it as a normal user? It only works if you are running it as root.

opjose · 12-12-2004, 11:07 AM

Yup as posted above...

Also an erroneously terminated process or still running background update will lock the rpm processes.

They are cleared automatically upon a reboot or you could try doing this by hand...

Usually though you WANT background rpm updates to complete...

ps -aux | grep rpm

to see if you have anything rpm related running in the background.

ddrfreak · 12-12-2004, 11:43 AM

I ran the update and it worked. And I was in root (im not the dumb. I hope) . And anyway before i couldnt update even when it was working. I killed to stones with 1 bird. or tow birds with one stone. However it goes.

reddazz · 12-12-2004, 12:58 PM

I didn't imply that you were dumb, it's a common mistake that anyone can do

Skyline · 12-12-2004, 01:13 PM

Similarly, you'll sometimes see this when actually trying to add sources/mirrors - a re-boot often does the trick

courtrrb · 12-12-2004, 04:21 PM

Two lock files are created in '/var/lib/urpmi' - .LOCK and .RPMLOCK. If either of these exist, delete them. Then rerun rpm or urpmi.

ddrfreak · 12-12-2004, 08:18 PM

There is no lock or rpm lock. And it happened again. Now when i try that refresh thing all it does is say urpmi locked!

caladbolg · 12-12-2004, 08:22 PM

It could be a source issue. Try another one.

courtrrb · 12-12-2004, 08:23 PM

Its a hidden file. With a . in front of the name. If your in a shell do a ls -la