1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/remove.c b/lib/libalpm/remove.c
index a84d2b02..3a2e733d 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/remove.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/remove.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 
 /* libalpm */
 #include "remove.h"
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ static int can_remove_file(pmtrans_t *trans, const char *path)
 	/* If we fail write permissions due to a read-only filesystem, abort.
 	 * Assume all other possible failures are covered somewhere else */
 	if(access(file, W_OK) == -1) {
-		if(errno != EACCES && access(file, F_OK) == 0) {
+		if(errno != EACCES && errno != ETXTBSY && access(file, F_OK) == 0) {
 			/* only return failure if the file ACTUALLY exists and we can't write to
 			 * it - ignore "chmod -w" simple permission failures */
 			_alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("cannot remove file '%s': %s"),