Jza Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 I been experiencing problems with urpmi ever since I re-install it in my system. The urpmi database will not remove the .LOCK and .RPMLOCK files from the /var/lib/urpmi/ directory causing the database to remain lock after an update check up or a different installation. This is a new 2007.1 'spring' installation with urpmi version 4.9.21 Thanks. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 are you sure it's not locked for a genuine reason? it locks while MandrivaUpdate is checking for updates, for instance. check whether the MandrivaUpdate icon is orange. Also do 'ps -e | grep rpm' to check whether any rpm-related processes are stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwatcher Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 are you sure it's not locked for a genuine reason? it locks while MandrivaUpdate is checking for updates, for instance. check whether the MandrivaUpdate icon is orange. Also do 'ps -e | grep rpm' to check whether any rpm-related processes are stuck. I am having the same problem with urpmi locking. In fact, I have been unable to update anything since setting up Easy-Urpmi. Either I get a 'urpmi database locked' error (mostly), or I get 'no packages found'. I did as adamw suggested and got the following: [root@localhost Desktop]# ps -e | grep rpm 6251 ? 00:00:04 urpmi.update When I turned my computer on, it automatically checked for updates. I got a red circle with an exclamation point in the system tray, but when I tried to update I got a 'locked' error. After that I got an orange circle with a question mark. Any ideas? (I am very much a newbie.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 hmm, looks like the urpmi.update process is stuck for some reason. You can kill it like this: kill -9 6251 note the 6251 is the same as the left-hand side number: that's the unique id number for the process, called the 'pid', and it will always be different, so don't always do kill -9 6251 :). do ps -e | grep rpm first, look at the number, and then do kill -9 [that number] you'll need to be root. Then you should be able to update your system. If it keeps happening, we'll need to find out why it's getting stuck: let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwatcher Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 hmm, looks like the urpmi.update process is stuck for some reason. You can kill it like this: kill -9 6251 note the 6251 is the same as the left-hand side number: that's the unique id number for the process, called the 'pid', and it will always be different, so don't always do kill -9 6251 :). do ps -e | grep rpm first, look at the number, and then do kill -9 [that number] you'll need to be root. Then you should be able to update your system. If it keeps happening, we'll need to find out why it's getting stuck: let me know. Adam, I killed the update process as you suggested, then I updated using the control center. After a restart, things seem to be working well now. Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 No problem, glad it's OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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