urpmi database locked?

otto k · 05-10-2005, 05:18 PM

HI

Can someone please help me. I have Mandrake 10 official and when I seek to use urpmi I get the message database locked. It used to work lovely, what has changed? is there now a charge or something?

Otto K

godzero · 05-10-2005, 05:46 PM

Only 1 instance of urpmi can access the DB at any one time. launch "KDE system gaurd", check for running urpmi-s, and rpmdrake, and kill 'em.

Dooley · 05-11-2005, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by otto k
HI

Can someone please help me. I have Mandrake 10 official and when I seek to use urpmi I get the message database locked. It used to work lovely, what has changed? is there now a charge or something?

Otto K

Otto K,
If you don't want to go mess with files, just reboot the machine and it should unlock urpmi database. Or at least it works for me.

Dooley

abattoir · 05-11-2005, 01:33 PM

Why waste the time rebooting when a simple

Code:

kilall urpmi

does the trick??

Micro420 · 05-11-2005, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by abattoir
Why waste the time rebooting when a simple

Code:

killall urpmi

does the trick??

fixed!

otto k · 05-15-2005, 05:38 AM

Hi

Thanks for all the advice. I think the problem turned out to be my own impatience. I think I got fed up with waiting for the necessary files to download and closed down the link which locked the database. While this is what happened when I tried another database.

Otto K

dianat100 · 05-17-2005, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by abattoir
Why waste the time rebooting when a simple

Code:

kilall urpmi

does the trick??

It doesn't. Instead it says:
urpmi: no process killed while the locked db problem is still valid

reddazz · 05-17-2005, 11:21 AM

Does the database remain locked if you reboot the computer.

otto k · 05-17-2005, 11:29 AM

Hi

Yes it does.

reddazz · 05-17-2005, 11:37 AM

Ok as root try,

Code:

#killall urpmi urpmi.update urpme rpm urpmi.addmedia
#rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK /var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK