Bug#45028: marked as done (Unable to lock download directory)
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From: Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>
Subject: Unable to lock download directory
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
Severity: normal
After updating my system earlier today, attempts to retrieve further packages
produce the following error message:
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E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
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This occurs whether using dselect, apt-get dselect-upgrade, or apt-get install
[package]. I can manually delete /var/cache/apt/archives/lock, in which case
apt-get will recreate the file before issuing the error message. At all times,
the lock file's size has been 0.
/var/cache/apt is NFS mounted from another machine and I'm not letting dselect
delete downloaded packages after installing, but this has not caused any
problems in the past.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux pchan 2.2.9 #5 Sun Aug 29 09:08:17 CDT 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.1-2 The GNU stdc++ library
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