Re: [opensuse] Locked out of my software database!



John E. Perry wrote:
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

I've seen this happen, usually after having done something under yast
related to software management or update. This works, without booting:

As root -

Ensure that the updater applet is NOT running (well, it wouldn't be in
your case)

ps -ef | grep yast

If you have a copy of yast running someplace, exit it , or kill it.
(kill -9 <pid>)

ps -ef | grep y2base

Same thing.

ps -ef | grep zyp

You probably DO have a detached instance of zypper (the updater) running.

Kill it.

Re-run the starter applet. It should come up and start an immediate
update check.

I just did all this stuff half an hour ago.

I hope that helps,

Daniel


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