Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 08:49 am, Paul wrote:
> hi,
>
> > > Tonight I went to install the package sharutils from the 9.2
> > > disks. It would not install and gave me the following error. I
> > > have no idea what it means. Anybody can explain/rectify this???
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >---- ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed)
> > > ---
> > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not
> > > permitted (1)
> > > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >---- Thanks for any help/guidance.
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > I was root. You have to be root to install software with Yast.
> >
> > Bob S.
>
> There should be more messages in the file /var/log/YaST2/y2log which
> may shed more light on the problem, for example the rpm database is
> corrupt and needs rebuilding.
>
> Also check the permissions of the directory /var/lib/rpm (ls -ld) and
> the files contained within it (ls -l).  Root should be able to
> read/write these files.
>
Paul,

The y2log is a huge file so I chose an excerpt which appears to be 
pertinent.  From looking at that it seems that yast could not get a 
lock on that directory.  Why ???  Here is the excerpt"
--------------------------------------------------
RpmDb::installPackage(/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/x86_64/sharutils-4.2c-721.x86_64.rpm,156)
2005-10-31 21:56:31 <1> EasyStreet(7757) [liby2util++] 
ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):163 Executing 'rpm' '--root' '/' 
'--dbpath' '/var/lib/rpm' '-U' '--percent' '--nosignature' '--force' 
'--nodeps' '--ignoresize' 
'/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/MEDIA/suse/x86_64/sharutils-4.2c-721.x86_64.rpm'
2005-10-31 21:59:35 <1> EasyStreet(7757) [liby2util++] 
ExternalProgram.cc(checkStatus):322 pid 7773 exited with status 1
2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] 
RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 rpm failed, message was: warning: waiting 
for exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] 
RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 error: cannot get exclusive lock 
on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] 
RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 error: cannot open Packages index using 
db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] 
RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 error: cannot open Packages database 
in /var/lib/rpm
2005-10-31 21:59:35 <3> EasyStreet(7757) [rpmdb] 
RpmDb.cc(installPackage):1637 
2005-10-31 22:01:13 <1> EasyStreet(7757) [YCP] PackageCallbacks.ycp:283 
DonePackage `abort
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks,

Bob S.