help with adept_manager lock

[Goh Lip]

Patricia Wilson wrote:



>     Patricia Wilson wrote:
>      > When I try to use adept_manager to do the upgrade to 9.04 I get
>     an error
>      > message -- Unable to get exclusive lock
>      > With detail --
>      > This usually means that another package management application (like
>      > apt-get or aptitude) already running. Please close that
>     application first.
>      >
>      > I had the system go down during a prior attempt to do the upgrade and
>      > suspect that there may be a lock file somewhere that didn't get
>     cleaned
>      > up. Can anyone help me find that/those  lockfile(s)?
>      >
>      >
> 
>     Try
> 
>     sudo dpkg --configure -a
> 
>     or
> 
>     sudo apt-get install -f
> 


 > I tried both and am still getting the same error.

Have you exited Adept or Synaptic or whatever when you do this?

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