smart starting in read-only mode as root

[J.L. Blom]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:46 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I have a problem with smart 0.50 on FC6.
> 
> Under KDE smart refused to respond so I had to terminate the 
> program.
> 
> Subsequently restarting smart, it starts up in read-only 
> mode - even as root user.
> 
> The only way I can get smart to start in RW mode is to use
> 
> # smart --ignore-locks --gui
> 
> from a terminal in KDE.
> 
> Obviously I don't want to keep using smart with locking 
> disabled, just in case I corrupt the RPM database.
> 
> Why is smart starting in RO mode, and what can I do to fix 
> it again please?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Keith
Try a ps -ef|grep smart (as root) and see how many smarts are running,
then kill all of them. Then the RO flag is gone.
Joep