Adept unusable

[Frode M. Døving]

Tuesday 26 september 2006 15:21, skrev Earl Violet:
> This happens sometimes to me. I go to a console and run as root. I
> run "ps aux", find any adept processes, and kill them. They're under
> my user name.
>
> Earl
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This is one way to do it. 
However, I prefer this way:

From konsole run:
$ 'sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock'

fuser finds the process locking the database, and ask you if you want to kill 
it or not.

- Frode