Adept Locked

[Frode M. Døving]

Hi Marc.

Try to run this command from konsole:
$ 'sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg --configure -a'

That will ask you if you want to kill the process locking the dpkg database.


- Frode


Mandag 02 oktober 2006 06:04, skrev Marc:
> When I try to run adept from the gui I am getting this error message.
>
> You will not be able to change your system settings in any way (install,
> remove or upgrade software), because another process is using the packaging
> system database (probably some other Adept application or apt-get or
> aptitude). Please close the other application before using this one.
>
> If I run sudo adept from console I get this error message.
>
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> After that adept opens but it is locked. I can not add or remove any
> packages. Does anyone know how to fix this problem.
>
>    Thanks in advance
>
>       Marc