Yum errors

[Dan Day]

Thanks David, that worked. The only thing I can think of is I had tried 
using Synaptic earlier to install a file and that timed out.

Which brings me to another question: What is the syntax for the 
/etc/apt/sources.list file? I get a lot of timeout errors when using 
Synaptic with the stock sources.list file so I'd like to use a 
different mirror. I'm using the http://ayo.freshrpms.net for yum, is it 
possible to use that in sources.list as well?


On Jun 10, 2004, at 10:36 AM, David Hacker wrote:

> It must have quit during a download and left a stale lock file.  Try 
> yum clean and then restart and run yum again.
>
> David C. Hacker, DVM
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> On Jun 10, 2004, at 10:23 AM, dan wrote:
>
>>    I've been using yum all morning with no problems searching for and 
>> listing packages. Then I try it again and get the following error:
>>
>> ---------------
>> [dan@loki dan]$ yum list libart
>> error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted 
>> (1)
>> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 152, in main
>>    (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args)
>>  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 71, in parseCmdArgs
>>    conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile)
>>  File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 130, in __init__
>>    self.yumvar['releasever'] = self._getsysver()
>>  File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 255, in _getsysver
>>    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', self.distroverpkg)
>> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
>> [dan@loki dan]$
>> ----------------------
>>
>> I haven't installed anything or changed anything with yum.conf. If I 
>> try to do anything with rpm I get the same error. Trying it with sudo 
>> doesn't work either.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
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