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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