Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive
On Saturday 08 July 2006 09:20, Stephen Fahey wrote:
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission
> denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/),
> are you root?
>
You cannot run two simulataneous processes both of which will upgrade packages
on your system. For example you cannot run two apt-get sessions or
apt-get+synaptic sessions etc., simultaneously. To make sure that there are
no such simultaneous sessions what apt does is to create a lock file. If the
lock file is present other process cannot upgrade the packages.
What would have happened in your case is that one of your
apt-get/synaptic/aptitude sessions were stopped abruptly. So the lock file
was not deleted. you can kill the corresponding apt-get/synaptic/aptitude
process by doing
pkill apt-get
as root. Substitude apt-get with your package manager. After that everything
should be fine.
> I've tried rebooting to no effect.
If you are using Debian (or any other Linux for that matter), normally you can
trouble shoot a problem without rebooting. Rebooting is M$ way of solving
problems. Do you want to be perceived as a clueless M$ user?
raju
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