Re: [Evolution] Upgrading Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

Good point. It's hard to know when this is necssary (I've
often gotten away with not doing it) but it can't hurt.

poc

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:06, Eric Lambart wrote:
> 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