psycho-killer Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 Hi there... How can i get rid of the urpmi database lock error? except to restart my machine the whole time its really getting on my nervers. What is the easiest way to update KDE to 3.2.2 Thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 The easiest way to update KDE 3.2.2 is by adding cooker to your repositories. However that is not the safest way. Cooker is unstable and it is possible KDE will not work. The best way is to download all the Mandrake KDE 3.2.3 packages from one of the KDE mirrors to a folder on your harddrive and add that folder as a repository. You could then install KDE with 'urpmi kdebase'. About the lock error I don't know but you could ofcourse kill the processes involved. Press in KDE ctrl-esc and look at what processes are involved and look up the PID numbers. Then open konsole, log in as root (because urpmi is a root process) and type 'kill <PID> <PID>' (where <PID> is the pid number) Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 database lock error? you mean the one wherein it says that /var/something/somefile.lock exists? if that is the case then just rename/delete it. its left behind by a previous session that did not terminate cleanly. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 It'd be great if you could paste the error message here. Sorry for the stupid question, but are you trying to install something running 2 instances of urpmi or any other installation program at the same time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 The lock file is in /var/lock I think. Might be in /var/lib/urpmi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 When are you getting the lock error? I know I used to get it a lot when I was updating my sources and if I had to kill console while I was updating or installing something (really slow connection, endless curl errors, etc - I'm not a patient guy-) Now as long as I hit "ctrl C" it won't lock on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 You will also get that error when you have the mcc>Add Media window open till you close it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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