Re: [SLE] Packages

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 7:36 pm, Lists wrote:

In YAST, if I add the local directory as a source of installation, the "Install and Remove Software" plug-in fails to load. It starts, says it's checking the database, then simply quite. No error message or anything. Checking the log, I find:

error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

I just used Yast to revert from KDE 3.2 to KDE 3.1.4. The reversion went very smoothly except for one glitch: I too got the message about the lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages. Interestingly, a retry cleared it. I wonder what the problem was. Paul Abrahams