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Re: when dpkg can't get a lock



On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 06:30:00 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate?  I was doing some 
> reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested  
> was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking 
> for package updates.  If that's possible what might have enabled it in 
> all the dictionary packages one of which was dictionary-common?

Run

lsof | grep /var/lib/dpkg/

as root when you run into the problem the next time; this should tell
you which process is locking dpkg at that moment.

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