PRMDRAKE: no gui? says "already running"

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11-14-2011
paulkruger

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.
11-15-2011
BoDiddley

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).
11-15-2011
paulkruger

[SOLVED] kill rpmdrake

Quote:

Originally Posted by BoDiddley

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.