Thanks for the reply, No, there is no file called lock in /var/cache/apt/ but there is one in /var/cache/apt/archives. I renamed it to lock.old but that hasn't made a difference to the error messages Adept has returned. Any further thoughts appreciated? Chris On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:39, Michael wrote:
Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Having converted from Suse9.2 to Kubuntu I have appreciated the Adept front end to dpkg. However the other day, it locked up my machine so I crashed out of X and rebooted the system.
However whenever I start Adept now it mentions that another process is in effect and that I need root permissions to run Adept.
Having run Adept as root it still won't let me install further packages and when I try it reports
debconf:DbDriver "config" /var/cache/debconf/config.dat dpkg:status database area is locked by another process dpkg run finished
I assume the file "config" is locked by the aborted Adept process.
I was wondering what the graceful way of resolving this problem Delete config.dat?
BTW, I have been pretty impressed with Kubuntu
Cheers
Chris
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Do you have a stall lock file? Have a look in /var/cache/apt for a file called lock. If there is one, remove it.
Michael.
/var/cache/apt/
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