help with adept_manager lock

[Patricia Wilson]

>
>
> >     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?
>
> Note: please bottom post,(meaning write your reply below the quotes). I
> have to rearrange your messages so others can get some sense of the
> messages.
>
> Yes, I just tried running both after a reboot and I still get the lock
error from adept_manager. I am running adept_manager from the command line
and get a lot of messages in  the terminal window but none seem relevant to
this issue. Also, I am running from gnome not KDE.

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Patricia Wilson
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