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Description of problem: When the RPM database is locked, Yum prints an error and does some traceback: $ LC_ALL=C yum search libcurl Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit 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 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 241, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 96, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 182, in getOptionsConfig disabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.disableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 180, in _getConfig self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 735, in readMainConfig yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 802, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed Should probably exit gracefully.
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Hm I am currently not able to reproduce it. Has this been fixed?
Hello, I have tried to install some packages and on another terminal ran `yum search libcurl` and AFAICT it works. yum-3.2.17-2.fc9.noarch I think this was fixed and could be closed - or better: is there a way how to lock rpmdb for a longer time so I can test more?
I don't think yum search is a good test, as that gets a read-only lock on the rpmdb. You probably want to do what initActionTs() does in yum.depsolver, and then run a package install in another window. But I'm not 100% sure.
Of course now I see the original problem was with search, so ignore that part of my comment :).
Hmm, when I do: >>> import yum, os, sys >>> my = yum.YumBase() >>> my.initActionTs() I'm still able to install/remove package (on another terminal), so it seems to me the lock is not "hard". Or have I done something incorrect?
*** Bug 443277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Efforts to diagnose and fix this problem are ongoing at bug 495087, which has more detailed information you may find to be of use. Thanks for the report! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495087 ***