rpm won't run as root

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > Does this behavior persist even after a reboot?
>
> Well, looks like it was solved it with a reboot. Weird. I can understand
> something having it locked. But a regular user being able to read the db
> while root can't seems strange.

Not really.  As I mentioned, root is the only user that gets a true lock
on the database, as root is the only user that can write to the database.
So, the others really don't care about open file handles and the like.
You could have prolly fixed this by grepping the output from lsof to see
what was currently locking the db.

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