fnctl transaction lock on rpmdb lost around : it'is* advisory* not mandatory however.

In RHEL4 rpm 4.3.3 it was FHS compliant : try rm -f /var/lock/rpm/transaction

(Aside) it is possible to set a rpm macros for disabling this behaviour.


Best Regards

2008/5/13 sunhux G <sunhux@gmail.com>:


Hi,
*
As I got a message on our Redhat Enterprise 4.5, :
Your GPG keyring does not contain public key ...
*
*
I copy & paste from https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key.html
those cryptic characters starting from the lines (inclusive)
*** -----BEGIN PGP*PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----****
******** . . . . .
*** -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
*
*
As I saved this file in Windows to a thumb drive & use "cp " to
copy it, there's a lot of ^M characters in this file which I then do
"dos2unix /media/usbdisk/saved_file.txt"
Then copy the converted saved_file.txt to /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.5
*
& issue using root account :
**rpm --import /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.5/saved_file.txt"
but got the error :
* "warning: can't get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages"
*
What's the cause of the above error?* I'm using root & the
protection of the saved_file.txt is 755.
*
I read somewhere that /var/lib/rpm/Packages* could be locked,
so what can I do?* I thought of renaming Packages to something
else & make another copy of Packages :
*
* mv /var/lib/rpm/Packages* /var/lib/rpm/Packages_2
* cp -p /var/lib/rpm/Packages_2**/var/lib/rpm/Packages
*
Would this help?* Appreciate any suggestions.
*
*
Thanks
U

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Thanks,
*
just one more somewhat unrelated question :
*
can the same key which I copied from
*** -----BEGIN PGP*PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----****
******** . . . . .
*** -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
be used on multiple Linux servers.
*
*
Thanks
U

*
On 5/13/08, devzero2000 <pinto.elia@gmail.com> wrote:
fnctl transaction lock on rpmdb lost around : it'is* advisory* not mandatory however.

In RHEL4 rpm 4.3.3 it was FHS compliant : try rm -f /var/lock/rpm/transaction


(Aside) it is possible to set a rpm macros for disabling this behaviour.

Best Regards


2008/5/13 sunhux G <sunhux@gmail.com>:




Hi,
*
As I got a message on our Redhat Enterprise 4.5, :
Your GPG keyring does not contain public key ...
*
*
I copy & paste from https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key.html
those cryptic characters starting from the lines (inclusive)
*** -----BEGIN PGP*PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----****
******** . . . . .
*** -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
*
*
As I saved this file in Windows to a thumb drive & use "cp " to
copy it, there's a lot of ^M characters in this file which I then do
"dos2unix /media/usbdisk/saved_file.txt"
Then copy the converted saved_file.txt to /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.5
*
& issue using root account :
**rpm --import /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.5/saved_file.txt"
but got the error :
* "warning: can't get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages"
*
What's the cause of the above error?* I'm using root & the
protection of the saved_file.txt is 755.
*
I read somewhere that /var/lib/rpm/Packages* could be locked,
so what can I do?* I thought of renaming Packages to something
else & make another copy of Packages :
*
* mv /var/lib/rpm/Packages* /var/lib/rpm/Packages_2
* cp -p /var/lib/rpm/Packages_2**/var/lib/rpm/Packages
*
Would this help?* Appreciate any suggestions.
*
*
Thanks
U
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