[Evolution] Upgrading Evolution

[Eric Lambart]

I presume you're having problems with RH 9.0 (or maybe 8?)... there are
many known issues with RPM lockups on that platform.  Deleting the __db
files is the key, but I believe after that you should rebuild the
database by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.  If you're still having
problems, I'd try that.

Cheers
Eric

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:31, Todd Cary wrote:
> Patrick -
> 
> I forgot to check the privileges!  They are correct: rw,r,r (I need to
> learn the octal equivalents).  However, I did change the owner but
> that made no difference - as expected.
> 
> Also, I did "ps - A | grep "rpm".
> 
> Hmmmmm....is there a way to run the rpm manually?  I am using
> 
> wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com|sh
> 
> Todd
> 
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > rpm can sometimes leave its database in a locked state, even
> > when no processes are active on it. If this happens, I've found
> > that the following works for me (as superuser):
> > 
> > 	rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?
> > 
> > (the files will be recreated next time rpm runs).
> > 
> > YMMV of course ...
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:32, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> >   
> > > sounds like your rpm database is locked by another process. you'll have
> > > to kill that other process I guess. *shrug*
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:41, Todd Cary wrote:
> > >     
> > > > When Ximian attempts to install a new version, it almosts gets to the 
> > > > end, but this error comes up:
> > > > 
> > > > Sep 26 12:41:28 Transaction failed: Unable to complete RPM transaction: 
> > > > unable to open RPM database: fcntl failed
> > > > 
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > 
> > > > Todd

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Eric Lambart <ximian@nomeaning.net>
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