[lug] RPM shared db lock

Alan Robertson alanr at bell-labs.com
Thu Jan 27 09:55:55 MST 2000


Paul Hardiman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am getting:
> 
> cannot get shared lock on database
> rpmQuery: rpmdbOpen() failed
> 
> Does this mean a db rebuild?
> 
> --

Don't think so.

This usually means that some other application (like gnorpm for example)
already has the database open.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com




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