I have a guess. I set it up as a "transaction server" since I was just going to doing some SQL testing. I realize now that I totally misunderstood what a transaction server is. Still, I would expect to be able to install packages? Greg -- Greg Freemyer Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. — Bernard Haisch On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

All,

I haven't use btrfs much yet.

Yesterday, I created a new Tumbleweed VM inside Virtualbox (hosted on a Win 10 PC) and accepted the default btrfs.

I've barely done anything with it yet, but admittedly I have rebooted several times. I think I did a clean poweroff each time.

When I run "zypper in mariadb" I get:

== Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Read-only file system) ==

But mount doesn't show /var as readonly:

== # mount | grep var /dev/sda2 on /var type btrfs (rw, ..., subvol=/@/var) overlay on /etc type overlay (rw, relatime, lowerdir=/sysroot/etc,upperdir=/sysroot/var/lib/overlay/etc,workdir=/sysroot/var/lib/overlay/work-etc) ==

[I typed the above, so beware of typos.]

Is there a easy fix, or should I just blow this VM away recreate with btrfs in the loop?

Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. — Bernard Haisch

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Just for the record. On my tw that dir is not located on /var. It's linked to /usr ls -ld /var/lib/rpm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26  7 mar 10.46 /var/lib/rpm -> ../../usr/lib/sysimage/rpm Cheers, /bengan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org