Yumex-dnf won't run due to some lock

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 09:58:19 UTC 2015



On 10/16/2015 04:38 AM, Doug Wyatt wrote:
> I ran yumex-dnf a few times, then the last time I got the message:
>
>    dnf is locked by another process
>    yum extender will exit
>       [   OK   ]
>
> and, it exits.
>
> I can run dnf install successfully, and rpm -i also works.
>
> Can anyone suggest where the lock might be?
>
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/76157/failed-to-obtain-the-transaction-lock-logged-in-as-root/

|rm /var/cache/dnf/metadata_lock.pid|


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