[ltp] Error on running rpm with FC2

James McKenzie linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:54:03 -0700


Eben:

df -i shows available inodes on all drives for Linux.  I do mount one 
Windows VFAT parition, but I don't think that rpm would use that drive.  
And all drives are mounted rw.

And additional note:  rpm -i --test does not give this error.

James McKenzie


Eben King wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>I am getting the following error when I run rpm to attempt to update 
>>several packages:
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>>error:  cannot create transaction lock.
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>>I attempted to find out where this lock is located and looked at all the 
>>usual places and attempted to find a rpm.lock file.  I am running rpm as 
>>root.  df -k shows enough space on all mounted drives.
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>Are all drives mounted read/write, and does "df -i" show inodes available 
>on all of them?
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