RPM failed: error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
I was trying setting up one server and found error below:
RPM failed: error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
Generally remote root access is not provided on hosting servers and we used normal account to log on to that server and was trying to install/uninstall few things there.We were fine till some time but soon started getting above error.
Step one: Queries some module using rpm -q, and found correct result.
#rpm -q module-name
Step two: Found wrong version of module and now time to remove it. use rpm -e(rase) for removing the module.
#rpm -e module-name
Got some error for dependent module.
Step three: Tried to remove the dependency using same rpm -e command.
#rpm -e dependent-module-name
Got above error in quotes.
After doing some Google, found that we were still logged on with the normal user and running rpm requires superuser access. We generally make this mistake because of the remote login restriction on root user.
For switching to super user:
#su password: provide password here
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