[ltp] Error on running rpm with FC2

Eben King linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:46:59 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, James McKenzie wrote:

> I am getting the following error when I run rpm to attempt to update 
> several packages:
> 
> error:  cannot create transaction lock.
> 
> 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.

Are all drives mounted read/write, and does "df -i" show inodes available 
on all of them?

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