Adept hangup

[Ron Morse]

On Saturday 13 January 2007 15:35, Gerald I. Evenden wrote:

> ...Even after rebooting I now get the 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."
>
> whenever I try to execute Adept.  A "ps -A" gives me no clue as to
> what might be running and suspect that some file or directory has
> been locked.
>
> HELP!  How do I get this cleaned up.

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.