Update error

[Ray Parrish]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>  said:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I'll bet that Ubuntu was automatically checking for available updates
> since you had just booted your box.  That would be another package
> manager running and prevent completion of what you were doing manually
> if it (the automatic one) started first.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
>   
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind, and forestall running Update Manager for 
a while after booting up from now on, to give it a chance to complete.

Later, Ray Parrish

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