[Scottish] rpmdb: DB.LOCK

[Kyle Gordon]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 16:55:13 Peter George wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Installing FC6 on a Poweredge 1550, I get about 3% through the
> installation process and a red bar comes up on the gui installer
> saying;
>
> "rpmdb: DB.LOCK -> lock_put: LOCK is no longer valid."
>
> And the installation fails with a strange red screen filled with
> unmount messages and a call to reboot.
>
> On reboot screen tells me operating system not found.
>
> Any thoughts as to why this might be happening?
>
> P

That sounds like the disk is failing during the install. Has the hard drive 
been checked out and working OK?

Kyle

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