I was removing some RPMs using rpm -e [package] and the process appeared to hang. After many minutes of waiting, I attempted to kill it, with no success. And I cannot do any other rpm commands until it's done/killed. What can I do? [root at walleye atanner]# ps -ef | grep rpm root 5863 5836 0 11:47 ? 00:00:00 rpm -e apmd autofs xisdnload isdroot 5971 5906 0 12:03 ttyp2 00:00:00 grep rpm [root at walleye atanner]# kill -9 5863 [root at walleye atanner]# ps -ef | grep rpm root 5863 5836 0 11:47 ? 00:00:00 rpm -e apmd autofs xisdnload isdroot 5974 5906 0 12:08 ttyp2 00:00:00 grep rpm [root at walleye atanner]# rpm -q apmd error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) thanks. -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com