help with adept_manager lock

[Derek Broughton]

Goh Lip 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
.. 
>> 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

it's a _lock_, not a broken install (though there could be a broken install, 
too).  The lock file should be in /var/cache/apt somewhere, iirc.  It's just 
called "lock".  Just remove it.

If you can't find it there (of course I don't have one), check in /var/run 
or as a last resort run "updatedb" and then "locate lock"
-- 
derek