Update manager complains about ungettable lock

[Jelle de Jong]

Joachim Ziegler wrote:
> Since 2 or 3 days (I update every day to the newest version), the update 
> managerr compplains:
> 
> could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource 
> temporarily unavailable
> 
> I have to remove the lock file by hand.
> 
> What's wrong? Should I file a bug report?
> 
> J.

are you sure you don't have a package manger running somewhere?
and are you sure you are running the package manager with sudo rights?

Jelle