Exclusive lock?

[Leo Lam]

startx works, partially.  The mouse pointer would disappear all of a sudden
(it is still 'there' but it is not visible!!).  I have only seen this
happening with NT, not quite on a Linux box...I have really bad luck or
something this time?!

LILO still doesn't work but there is a proper lilo.conf.  I have upgraded to
the newer LILO (from Mandrake) but that doesn't help either.

Should I run a new clean install?!  This is driving me nuts!!  :p

Leo
----- Original Message -----
From: "'Lumberjack' A. Parker" <zaphod42 at u.washington.edu>
To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Exclusive lock?


> Strange things are happening hmmm?  Check /var/lib/rpm to see if a bunch
> of files are there, they seem to be the database files for rpm.  If they
> aren't there you have a bit of a problem(with rpm at least).  Also maybe
> check /var/lock to see if there is perhaps a lockfile in there.
>
> As for X and KDE.  If you are sitting at the command line, you should type
> startx, not kde. :)  If that doesn't work something is wrong with you X
> install.
>
> Do you have a lilo.conf file in etc?  If so does it look normal?  If it
> does try running lilo and see if it'll work.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrew Parker
>
> ------------------------------
> "...it's no challange to destroy the weak."
> - Abner Doon, _Breaking the Game_, Orson Scott Card
> zaphod42 at u.washington.edu
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Leo Lam wrote:
>
> > Carry on with the RPM thread.  Well, I was logged in as ROOT, and I
rebooted
> > once but it doesn't make any difference.  I suspect something was wrong
> > during installation because it was not exactly 'hassle-free', LILO
didn't
> > work and still doesn't work, and there are other miscellaneous problems.
> > Any clue?
> >
> > Also, I rebooted the computer and then X and KDE failed to start.  What
> > should I do?  Normally after installing Mandrake X and KDE would
> > automatically start.  Now I typed in 'kde' at the console login screen
> > (logged in as root) and there are warning messages saying that KDE
cannot
> > connect to the X configuration files etc.  What is going on?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Leo
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Hornung" <mike at boobaz.net>
> > To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: Exclusive lock?
> >
> >
> > > Hmm, I'd look around for a stale lockfile somewhere.  Rpm apparently
> > > thinks the database is locked by another process.
> > >
> > > And, no, you don't have to be root to access (i.e. read) the RPM
> > > databases.
> > >
> > > ---------------------------
> > > -=<(| mike at boobaz.net |)>=-
> > >
> > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Leo wrote:
> > >
> > > |Hi guys,
> > > |
> > > |I had a funny error today.  When I started RPM (I use Mandrake 6) it
gave
> > me an
> > > |error saying "cannot get shared lock on database" and it would not
list
> > the
> > > |installed packages and of course it wouldn't install anything new,
too.
> > > |
> > > |Can any one shed some light on this?
> > > |
> > > |Leo
> > > |
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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