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Waiting for Transaction Lock when installing rpm



Derek wrote:
> Try rebooting to get the kernel to clear the lock out of the file
> system?
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Don Levey" <lug at the-leveys.us> writes:
> 
...
>> The process that was running the original rpm is still around, even
>> when trying to kill-9 it:
>> 	root     31879     1  0 09:15 ?        00:00:00 rpm -Uvh
>> clamav-0.74-1.i386.rpm 
>> 
>> Any thoughts on:
>> 1) How to kill the previous process when kill -9 doesn't?
>> 2) Any other way to get this rpm to install?
>> 

That was the next step, absent other suggestions.
I'm reluctant to do that, though - reminds me too much of MS...

 -Don




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