[Bug 224539] Re: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

[Edward Donovan]

I'm gonna close this, marking it as Invalid.  Any program that does apt
work can have this 'failed to lock error', but there's no bug evident
here.   These are temporary problems, from running two package tools at
once, or a process not exiting, or at worst a temporary file needing to
be removed.

These reports show imperfections in the the packaging system that could
be made into wishlist bugs:

- Jonas fixed his temporary problem.  Ideally users would not have to manually clean up files to get past this.
- sirovsky was trying to do two package tasks at once.  Perhaps error messages could make that clearer.
- oriman: did this continue?  if this is reproducible for you, you might re-open this bug.

The error messages and cleanups could be improved, but receiving the
"failed to lock" message isn't a particular breakage in update manager.
Thanks.


** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Hello,

  I started kubuntu upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. Upgrade was downloading
  slow and I had to switch off my PC. I closed upgrade manager in the
  middle of package download. After I started again I got this error
  message: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

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