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Today I tried to install TeamViewer. It ran and installed packages but I don't know if it ever finished. No clue? But since I cannot seem to access RPMDRAKE at ...
  1. 11-14-2011 #1
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    Question PRMDRAKE: no gui? says "already running"

    Today I tried to install TeamViewer. It ran and installed packages but I don't know if it ever finished. No clue?

    But since I cannot seem to access RPMDRAKE at all. When I click to start it I am prompted for my root password but thereafter nothing...

    If I try to click to start again I get a popup error telling me "rpmdrake is already running [pid 8026]"

    But where is it? Nothing on screen. Same if I try to launch via terminal, just get same popup telling me it is already running.

    I also don't know how to kill the process other than to reboot.
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    Yeah, you are in a locked file conundrum. I was able to free mine (Iceweasel) by deleting profile directory. Since then I have noticed that /Var has a lock folder - not sure what it is for, see if yours is populated. (please reply if it is).
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    Red face [SOLVED] kill rpmdrake

    Quote Originally Posted by BoDiddley View Post
    Yeah, you are in a locked file conundrum. I was able to free mine (Iceweasel) by deleting profile directory. Since then I have noticed that /Var has a lock folder - not sure what it is for, see if yours is populated. (please reply if it is).
    Just trying things and this seems to have worked.

    In terminal I typed # kill rpmdrake

    There must have been updates or something in que because I saw perhaps 25-30 lines of "installs" pass by then it stopped.

    Immediately after that the GUI opened up and has worked since.
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