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[Lucky Leavell <susemisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Carl Hartung wrote:

> On Monday 24 July 2006 13:20, Lucky Leavell wrote:
> > dmesg produces too much volume to be read; /var/log/messages has no
> > entries for "rpm" or "yast".  Again, I haven't found ANY lock files in
> > /var/run or /var/lib/rpm. Is there anyplace else I should look?  (Of
> > course, I could do a fiind for "*.lock" ...)
> 
> It's a good sign if you're not seeing any hd access related errors, :-)
> I wish I knew for certain where rpm puts the lock file (maybe someone else 
> will chime in?)
> 
> If you get tired of waiting and/or looking for it, you could always try the 
> rpm database rebuild. That's probably what my approach would be.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
I did the rebuild and that apparently cleared the lock file. Now I am 
trying to resolve all the other problems.

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