[BUG?] pkg: Cannot get a read lock on a database, it is locked by another process

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 5 02:28:29 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrade pkg to 1.3.4 I have the same problem with pkg_libchk which it shows while is running:
>
> pkg: Cannot get a read lock on a database, it is locked by another process

What command did you type which caused this problem?

>
>
> Any suggestion is welcome.

If  you look here:

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/commits/release-1.3

there is a fix for READ_LOCK commit 4d946cf395a51f48bcc1469e21862910dd50797c but
that fix went in after pkg 1.3.4 was released.

This won't be available until pkg 1.3.5.

--
Craig


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