Update error

[Ray Parrish]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>   
>>     
> I'm sure it's not running in another window ar anything, as I had just 
> booted up, started my email, started the browser, then began updates. 
> How do I delete the lock file, and then what do I do after that to 
> complete these updates?
>
> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>
>   
Once again, never mind... I just closed the error dialog in Update 
Manager, ran the updates again, and they are now completing 
successfully. Thanks for your quick answers before.

Later, Ray Parrish

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