Re: aptitude update is boke
Hi Rodney -
First make sure you don't have aptitude, apt or dpkg or dselect, or
synaptic, or gnome-apt etc etc in the middle of something somewhere on
another login/console.
The remove the lock files...
ok lets see if I can remember all of them.
rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
rm /var/lib/aptitude/lock
rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
I've got a hunch there might be another one - these seem to work for me
50% of the time though - Disclaimer - I really don't know the
consequences of doing this, it just seems to fix the problem for me
Good luck
Glenn
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 09:34, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I'm attempting to upgrade my friends laptop. As root, running "aptitude
> update". it does it's thing, but at the end I get this message;
>
> Fetched 2914kB in 41s (69.4kB/s)
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information... Done
> W: Warning: could not lock the cache file file. Opened in read-only mode
>
> What is this error, how do I get his fixed.
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