On May 29, 5:57 pm, Bala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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 /"
>
> Output of the command that i'm trying to run is as below.
>
> # rpm -i -vv mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.i386.rpm
> D: ============== mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.i386.rpm
> D: Expected size: 2484454 =
> lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(2484014)
> D: Actual size: 2484454
> D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:cdb:mpool
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
> D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
> warning: mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 37017186
> D: added binary package [0]
> D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
> D: ========== +++ mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1 i386/linux 0x0
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x0
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
> D: read h# 721 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
> D: Requires: libmysqlclient.so.15 YES (db
> provides)
> D: read h# 721 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
> D: Requires: libmysqlclient_r.so.15 YES (db
> provides)
> D: read h# 721 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
> D: Requires: mysql = 5.0.22-2.1 YES (db
> provides)
> D: read h# 738 Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
> D: Requires: openssl-devel YES (db
> provides)
> D: Requires: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 YES
> (rpmlib provides)
> D: Requires: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 YES
> (rpmlib provides)
> D: Conflicts: MySQL-devel NO
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname rdonly mode=0x0
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends
> D: ========== recording tsort relations
> D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors,
> tree, depth, breadth)
> D: 0 0 0 0 1 0 +mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.i386
> D: installing binary packages
> error: can't create transaction lock on /
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> #
>
> I checked up some other forums and almost all of them suggest the
> following solutions:
>
> 1) Make sure the command is run as "root" user
> 2) Make sure /var/lib/rpm/ exists .
> 3) Make sure other package update tools or managers are not open "such
> as yum/a diff rpm install window"
>
> I have checked for all the above and yet cant proceed beyond the
> original error mentioned during the start of the message. I also tried
> to rebuild the rpm db thinking this could be a problem with the rpm
> db. I get the same error for that too.
>
> # rpm -vv --rebuilddb
> error: can't create transaction lock on /
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> #
>
> I'm running all these commands as the "root" user. Please help me in
> addressing this problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Bala
I solved this problem now. Turns out that the rpmlock_path macro in /
usr/lib/rpm/macros was not defined. So "/" was picked up as the
default path. I added this entry in /usr/lib/rpm/macros and was able
to install again.
# rpm -ivh mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.i386.rpm
warning: mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID 37017186
Preparing...
########################################### [100%]
1:mysql-devel
########################################### [100%]
#
More details can be found in this thread :
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2007-May/msg00048.html
Thanks,
Bala
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