Re: [Evolution] Upgrading Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:31, 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.

On my machine the modes are 644 (rw,r,r) and owner root, and
I don't have any difficulty. You might want to check the mode
on the directory itself, just in case. Mine is:

drwxr-xr-x    2 rpm      rpm          1024 Sep 26 09:40 /var/lib/rpm/


> 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

You could just copy the output of wget:

wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com > foo

and then poke around in foo to see what's going on.

poc

> 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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