Bug#727120: apt: add name/path to "could not lock the cache file"
Package: apt
Version: 0.9.11.4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
after a failed upgrade system was in bad shape, trying to upgrade kept giving me
"could not lock the cache file". even after quite a while on google i could not find what this 'cache file' was supposed to be. given the threads i ran into i think it would be rather useful to actually tell us what where to find this cache file :)
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
#deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ testing main
deb http://ftp.debian.de/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.nl/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.de/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
#fuckingclamav
#deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile testing/volatile main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4
ii gnupg 1.4.15-1.1
ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.11.4
ii libc6 2.17-93
ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-10
ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-10
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.6.8.2-1.2
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.12
ii python-apt 0.8.9.1+b1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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