failed upgrade

[Matt Price]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:05 -0500, Ralph Hinkes wrote:
> I am unable to upgrade the Linux-image-386 or the
> Linux-restricted-modules-386.   I've tried running apt-get in a terminal
> window with the following errors:
> 
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is
> another process using it?
> 
> 
> I also tried using the synaptic package manager with no luck.  Any
> assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 

almost certainly you have another dpkg processrunning try 

ps aux | grep dpkg 
and
ps aux | grep apt

see if you can find the culprit, and then 

sudo kill -9 [pid]

m


> Thanks,
> 
> Ralph Hinkes
> rhinkes at comcast.net
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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