urpmi locked??

kwickcut · 01-20-2005, 11:45 PM

i am loged in as root and i tryed to install mysql in tetminal by typing urpmi mysql-4.0.20-3 and i get urpmi database locked how do i unlock this and how do you think it got locked thanks

kwick

masand · 01-21-2005, 12:26 AM

hi there

this happens because at a time only one process can have acces to the urpmi list and this message appear when u have one process accesing the urpmilst and the other one tries to access it

now i have one dangerous way

this can corrupt ur urpmi list but if u do not get anything working then try this

run
ps -aux|grep urpmi

u will get a list of process usng the upmi

kill them by

kill -9 <process id>

and u can run ur urpmi now

regards

RoaCh Of DisCor · 01-21-2005, 12:30 AM

Whenever I get that problem I just goto console and type killall urpmi. Seems to work.

kwickcut · 01-21-2005, 05:49 AM

thank you for the info i got it going again thanks

kwick