On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 18:01, David Johnson wrote: > I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long > time of it scanning for updates. > > Now when I try to run it, I get "URPMI database locked" and can do nothing > else with the program. > > a scan of man urpmi gave no clues. > > Does anyone have any idea how to remove the lock from the urpmi database?
A reboot does it; there is probably a less brutal method, but I like what I know! Alastair
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