Re: rpm gives warning: can't get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages

fnctl transaction lock on rpmdb lost around : it'is  advisory  not mandatory
however.

In RHEL4 rpm 4.3.3 it was FHS compliant : try rm -f
/var/lock/rpm/transaction

(Aside) it is possible to set a rpm macros for disabling this behaviour.

Best Regards

2008/5/13 sunhux G <[email protected]>:

>
> Hi,
>
> As I got a message on our Redhat Enterprise 4.5, :
> Your GPG keyring does not contain public key ...
>
>
> I copy & paste from https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key.html
> those cryptic characters starting from the lines (inclusive)
>     -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
>          . . . . .
>     -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
>
>
> As I saved this file in Windows to a thumb drive & use "cp " to
> copy it, there's a lot of ^M characters in this file which I then do
> "dos2unix /media/usbdisk/saved_file.txt"
> Then copy the converted saved_file.txt to /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.5
>
> & issue using root account :
>   rpm --import /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.5/saved_file.txt"
> but got the error :
>   "warning: can't get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages"
>
> What's the cause of the above error?  I'm using root & the
> protection of the saved_file.txt is 755.
>
> I read somewhere that /var/lib/rpm/Packages  could be locked,
> so what can I do?  I thought of renaming Packages to something
> else & make another copy of Packages :
>
>   mv /var/lib/rpm/Packages  /var/lib/rpm/Packages_2
>   cp -p /var/lib/rpm/Packages_2  /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>
> Would this help?  Appreciate any suggestions.
>
>
> Thanks
> U
>
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