Edgy Apt misbehaving

[Ted Quick]

--- Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:25, Ted Quick wrote:
> > --- Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 09:43, Ted Quick wrote:
> > > > So how to I find what application is running, since this comes up after
> > > > a reboot, and never goes away? I am not aware of ANY applications that
> > > > are running at that point, but Edgy thinks there's 1 going......
> > >
> > > Try this in a console:
> > > ps -AF| egrep '(apt|adept)'
> > > If it shows anything likely, then you can try to kill the offending
> > > process. Note that this may match things that don't affect Apt, so kill
> > > with care.
> > >
> > > Here is what I get on a Dapper desktop:
> > > :~$ ps -AF| egrep '(apt|adept)'
> > >
> > > kitterma  5525     1  0  7580  9312   1 Sep28 ?        00:00:36
> > > adept_notifier kitterma  5718     1  0 22494 31308   0 Sep28 ?       
> > > 00:22:45
> > > konversation -caption Konversation -icon konversation -miniicon
> > > konversation
> > >
> > > If you got that, then I'd sudo kill 5525 as the offending process.  That
> > > approach has worked for me in the past.  YMMV.
> > >
> > > Scott K
> >
> > Thanks for the method. When I tried it it didn't remove 1 process, as
> > follows:
> >
> > 1000      4684  4657  0   701   756   0 12:22 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -E
> > (apt|adept)
> >
> > That's the only thing left open.
> >
> > When I tried taking that out it just came back with the same thing at a
> > slightly higher number.
> 
> Yes.  That's the process for the grep search you are running.  That's one of 
> the "this may match things that don't affect Apt" that I mentioned.
> 
> After you killed everything else were you able to run Adept?

No, it came up again unable to make any changes so I just reloaded Edgy. Now I want to try the
original upgrade process again and hopefully be able to get it so I can install the other programs
I REALLY want to get on here. 

I suspect the problem was caused by the US archives having a problem, as mentioned in earlier
messages here. So how do I set to different sites in Adept (or Apt)?


Ted Quick
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