Q) status database area is locked?

[Glen Lee]

They are not open, but I could see that this is due to conflicting with
other package manager.
Rebooting resolves the problem. Thanks for your help?

Glen


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, IdleOne <oneidle at gmail.com> wrote:

> is Software Center or Synaptic package manager also open?
>
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 15:59 -0400, Glen Lee wrote:
> >
> >  Dear Ubuntu experts,
> >  Can anybody help me how to fix this error below?
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >  Glen
> >
> >  glen at ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> > [sudo] password for glen:
> > dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
> >
>
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