Waiting for transaction lock

[gmoreno]

Hello Galls an Guys,

I am not able to install any rpms. If I try to manually or yum install a rpm it always tells me its waiting for a transaction lock and never goes further than that.

Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thanks

[jcstille]

have you done an su?

[gmoreno]

Yeah, it happens even when I run it as root.

[superbnerd]

When did it start, it is fairly common. try to kill all frozen rpm transaction killall rpm and check if there are any files in the directory /var/lock/rpm.

[gmoreno]

I have /var/lock but not /var/lock/rpm. Maybe thats a clue.

[superbnerd]

You should always search the forum for solutions (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18430) to your problems befora posting (http://www.fedoraforum.org/guidelines.php)

[gmoreno]

Well I did do a search here an on google. Anyways I did touch /var/lock/rpm ran yum and it works. Thanks