Update error

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I ran the update process today on Hardy Heron, and after downloading I
> was informed that the updates were unable to complete because the "dpkg:
> status database area is locked by another process".
>
> Anyone know how to recover from this?

Sure that it's not running in another window/console somewhere?

If you are really sure it's not running somewhere else (e.g. if you
reboot you will _know_ it's not running elsewhere) then you could
remove the lock file,  but I bet you won't have to.

Brian