[plug] rpm and dependencies

Michael Hunt michael.j.hunt at usa.net
Thu Mar 1 23:30:50 WST 2001


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Ari wrote:
> When I ran the rpm --rebuilddb command as root I got this error:
> cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages

Can't help you with your previous problem but the shared lock means that
another process already has the database locked (maybe gnorpm was still
running while you were entering these commands, or you rpm command had not
released contol of the database).

Michael Hunt
West Africa




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