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27.5.2 Termination During the Switch
Process
Sometimes SCPM stops working during a switch procedure. This may be caused by
some outside effect, such as a user abort, a power failure, or even an error in SCPM itself.
If this happens, an error message stating SCPM is locked appears the next time you
start SCPM. This is for system safety, because the data stored in its database may differ
from the state of the system. To resolve this issue, run scpm recover. SCPM per-
forms all missing operations of the previous run. You can also run scpm recover
-b, which tries to undo all already performed operations of the previous run. If you are
using the YaST profile manager, get a recover dialog on start-up that offers to perform
the commands described above.

27.6 For More Information

The latest documentation is available in the SCPM info pages (info scpm). Information
for developers is available in /usr/share/doc/packages/scpm.
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