help with adept_manager lock

[Patricia Wilson]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >     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.
>
> Thanks for bottom posting.
> When I mentioned exit from Adept or Synaptic, it means don't use the
> program, close, quit or whatever term you can understand. Don't use
> adept_manager. Close, quit, exit. Then, on a terminal, console or bash,
> type "sudo dpkg --configure -a" or "sudo apt-get install -f"  without
> the quotation marks.
>
> If you are using Gnome, why are you using Adept?
>
>

>
> Good question. I was following the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JauntyUpgrades/Kubuntu/8.04.
 Here is what I did from a fresh terminal (in a KDE session) after a reboot:

Leothon/home/pwilson> sudo dpkg --configure -a
Leothon/home/pwilson> sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Leothon/home/pwilson>

Then I opened adept_manager from the KDE menu and selected Fetch Updates.
Then when it appeared I selected Version Upgrade. Then after going through a
few forms I get the Unable to get exclusive lock error.

I very much appreciate the time you are taking with this and I hope I am
understanding you correctly.

-- 
Patricia Wilson
Apache Junction, AZ
Member NRA, ARRL
WB8DXX
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