Re: Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file.

[wpmills@Mills-USA.com (W. Paul Mills)]

Sven.Hartrumpf@FernUni-Hagen.de (Sven Hartrumpf) writes:

> I have installed packages using aptitude when my / partition filled up
> by some /etc ... files (from CUPS packages).
> Installation failed therefore.
> Now, everytime I call aptitude I get:
> "Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only
> mode"
> and therefore can not de/select anything in aptitude.
> I have found some lock files for apt and deleted them. But this did not
> solve the problem.
> Any ideas?

I had a similar problem due to a hardware failure during upgrade.
In desperation, I ran dselect, which also failed, but told me what
I needed to run to solve the problem. Sorry, I do not remember the
command.

Paul




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