Re: New to CentOS, and wondering about application availability

[b.j.smith at ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith)]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:31 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> Quick follow up:
> I tried to install a "key", and here's how it went:
> [root@localhost ~]# rpm --import 
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
> warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> [root@localhost ~]# rpm --import /home/dave/Desktop/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
> warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> *sigh*

Something else is using the RPM database.
It's just preventing multiple write access.

Do you have up2date running?
Or any other updater/program?

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