Guest Moogman Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Hi I'm new here. Just downloaded and installed 10.1 ce its pretty good so far but I cant seem to run updates at all. Went to easy urpmi and tried to update and all I get is the message urpmi database locked. Could any one help me please?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Do you have another instance of urpmi running? Do you have any of the gui tools for installing or removing software open? If so, close them then try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germ Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Moogman, welcome to MandrakeUsers. As root: Use this command: killall urpmi urpmi.update urpme rpm urpmi.addmedia Then this command: rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK /var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK That should do it. If the database is not unlocked afterwards, you will need to reboot. Should be good to go. Kind of a rare error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moogman Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Good stuff thank you, now all i have to do is figure out how to update my Kernal. Any idea's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted November 11, 2004 Report Share Posted November 11, 2004 Moogman I too had 10.1CE and couldn't get security updates - I started this thread which following it, will lead you to this thread - allowing you to update CE to Official and therefore access to security updates etc etc Try it, i'm sure you'll like it :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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