<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">There is a lock, and I do believe that associated with it is a process-id. So when another application tries for the same lock, before giving up, the process-id is checked to see if it exists. If it does not, the lock is deleted and the new lock is created.<br><br>I did find that yum put a lock in a subdirectory of /usr Its been a long time since I had to clear it manually.<br><br>Also check /tmp Sometimes locks are placed there<br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/23/09, Patrick Dupre <i><pd520@york.ac.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Patrick Dupre <pd520@york.ac.uk><br>Subject: Re: service<br>To: "Steven R. Ringwald" <asric@asric.org><br>Cc: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
<fedora-list@redhat.com><br>Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 6:06 AM<br><br><pre>On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Steven R. Ringwald wrote:<br><br>> On 1/22/2009 6:47 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:<br>>> Hello,<br>>> <br>>> What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ?<br>> <br>> yum-update ?<br>> <br>It is not running !<br>Another thing, are the lock managed ?<br>Many times if I make a rpm -qa<br>and I interrupt it, then their is a lock and I have to restart the machine.<br>How can I manage thsi.<br><br>Thank<br>-- ---<br>==========================================================================<br> Patrick DUPRÉ | |<br> Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384<br> The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516<br> Heslington | |<br> York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email:
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