Noone, root included can
open("/", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = -1
EISDIR (Is a directory)
But I have no idea how fix it :(
Valery
--- Bala <balaknathan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did that actually. My mistake, I forgot to post up
> the results in my
> previous posts.
>
> This is the strace snip :
>
> stat64("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
> ...}) = 0
> stat64("/var/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
> ...}) = 0
> stat64("/var/lib/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
> st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/var/lib/rpm", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
> st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> access("/var/lib/rpm", W_OK) = 0
> access("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", F_OK) = 0
> access("/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname", F_OK) = 0
> stat64("/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12288,
> ...}) = 0
> open("/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname",
> O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6
> fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> read(6,
>
"\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\10\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10"...,
> 512) =
> 512
> close(6) = 0
> open("/var/lib/rpm/Conflictname",
> O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6
> fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12288,
> ...}) = 0
> umask(022) = 022
> open("/", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = -1
> EISDIR (Is a directory)
> umask(022) = 022
> open("/", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 7
> write(2, "error: ", 7error: ) = 7
> write(2, "can\'t create transaction lock on"...,
> 35can't create transaction
> lock on /
> ) = 35
> close(7) = 0
>
>
> I can vagulely make out that it is trying to the
> file
> /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname and fails after that.
> After I saw this output, I
> thought that the RPM db files need to be rebuilt. So
> I tried :
>
> # rpm --rebuilddb
> error: can't create transaction lock on /
> #
>
> This one came up with the same error too. The strace
> for this command is as
> below:
>
>
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo",
> O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo",
> O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
>
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
> write(2, "error: ", 7error: ) = 7
> write(2, "can\'t create transaction lock on"...,
> 35can't create transaction
> lock on /
> ) = 35
> close(3) = 0
> exit_group(-1) = ?
> Process 6557 detached
>
> I'm not sure what I'm missing here.
>
> Bala
>
>
>
>
> On 5/30/07, Valery Reznic <valery_reznic@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > You can run rpm under strace and examine what
> strace
> > has to say.
> >
> > Valery
> > --- Bala <balaknathan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I removed the db files and checked if some other
> > > rpm/yum processes are
> > > running on the system. There are no other
> processes
> > > active that may
> > > potentially cause a problem. I have deleted the
> > > __db* files under
> > > /var/lib/rpm directory and tried running again.
> Yet
> > > no luck.
> > >
> > > The rpm version i'm using is 4.4.2.
> > >
> > > # rpm --version
> > > RPM version 4.4.2
> > > #
> > >
> > > Could this be a problem with the rpm version
> itself
> > > ? Would you suggest
> > > upgrading/downgrading to a different version ?
> > >
> > > Bala
> > >
> > > On 5/30/07, Tony Earnshaw <tonni@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Paul Nasrat skrev, on 29-05-2007 16:10:
> > > >
> > > > >>> I'm trying to install mysql devel rpm on
> RHEL
> > > 5 and I'm stuck at this
> > > > >>> error and cant proceed further.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> "error: can't create transaction lock on
> /"
> > > > >> You may have a trailing lock - ls
> /var/lib/rpm
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Check for other rpm/yum processes running.
> If
> > > none then:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, just to add for RHEL your first stop
> > > really should be support.
> > > >
> > > > Simply to collate: I have no problems with
> this on
> > > CentOS 5
> > > > (mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1 ) or Fedora FC6
> > > (mysql-devel-5.0.27-1.fc6) - both
> > > > are the versions yum has updated to. Just as
> well,
> > > since there's no
> > > > official support on either :)
> > > >
> > > > --Tonni
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Tony Earnshaw
> > > > Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl
> > > >
> > > >
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