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[Susemail <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 July 2007 04:14:19 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Susemail <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-06-07 04:15]:
> > When I reference the rpm database I get an error message saying that
> > another process is using the database and that the package management
> > cannot be used now.
> >
> > How can I get the PID of this mystery process so I can kill it?
> > Now I have to reboot to kill the prcess
>
> from the cl:  ps ax|grep rpm
>
> or, just:  killall rpm
>
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Thanks Patrick,

It worked.  But not as I expected.
This is what I started with:

:~> ps ax|grep rpm
12442 pts/4    Ss+    0:00 
kdesu -n --nonewdcop -- /opt/kde3/share/apps/krpmview/setup_temp_source /home/myhome/bin/ekiga-2.0.9-0.pm.0.x86_64.rpm.part
12454 ?        Ss     
0:00 /bin/bash /opt/kde3/share/apps/krpmview/setup_temp_source /home/adriel/bin/ekiga-2.0.9-0.pm.0.x86_64.rpm.part
13971 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/zypper service-delete _krpmview_temporary
 8620 pts/10   S+     0:00 grep rpm

So I decide to:
:~> killall rpm
rpm: no process killed

Then:
:~> ps ax|grep rpm
12442 pts/4    Ss+    0:00 
kdesu -n --nonewdcop -- /opt/kde3/share/apps/krpmview/setup_temp_source /home/adriel/bin/ekiga-2.0.9-0.pm.0.x86_64.rpm.part
12454 ?        Ss     
0:00 /bin/bash /opt/kde3/share/apps/krpmview/setup_temp_source /home/adriel/bin/ekiga-2.0.9-0.pm.0.x86_64.rpm.part
13971 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/zypper service-delete _krpmview_temporary
 8620 pts/10   S+     0:00 grep rpm

So I decided to kill one process at a time.  Killing the first one solved my 
problem.

Why didn't killall rpm kill these processes? 

Thanks,
Jerome




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