# SMT11 - Can't sync; getting "Cannot remove lockfile."

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/smt11-cant-sync-getting-cannot-remove-lockfile/21809>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [September 19, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/smt11-cant-sync-getting-cannot-remove-lockfile/21809 "2011-09-19T23:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/smt11-cant-sync-getting-cannot-remove-lockfile/21809/1 "2011-09-19T23:26:02Z")

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Finally got our SLES11SP1 SMT server working late last week, and now  
it’s broken again!

Getting the following error:

# smt-mirror

WARNING: The following repositories cannot be mirrored.  
Maybe you have not enough permissions to download these  
repositories?

- OES2-SP2-Updates sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP2-Updates sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP3-Online sles-10-x86\_64
- SLE11-SP1-SMT-Updates sle-11-x86\_64
- OES2-SP2-Online sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES11-SP1-Pool sle-11-x86\_64
- SLE11-SP1-SMT-Pool sle-11-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP3-Pool sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES11-SP1-Updates sle-11-x86\_64
- OES2-SP3-Online sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP2-Pool sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP4-Updates sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP3-Updates sles-10-x86\_64
- OES2-SP3-Pool sles-10-x86\_64
- OES2-SP2-Pool sles-10-x86\_64
- OES2-SP3-Updates sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP4-Online sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP4-Pool sles-10-x86\_64
- SLES10-SP2-Online sles-10-x86\_64

Cannot remove lockfile.

Any ever seen this? There are \*NO \*TIDs on the KBase for this error..

Thanks,  
Jim

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