[opensuse] Locked out of my software database!



Hi,

My opensuse updater suddenly started showing the yellow triangle with
the exclamation point a few days ago. When I try to clear it, it exits
with the message "Another process is accessing the package database.
Package management cannot be used now."

ps -e | grep ast

shows only something called "master" running, so it doesn't appear to be
yast.

I can't get either the updater or yast to run without rebooting the
machine. What else could be locking the database?

John Perry
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