Adept crash- graceful resolution to debconf
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
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/
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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Well I am not entirely sure what happened but I renamed any thing I could find with "lock" in it in the /var/cache/ tree as lock.old and then tried to install some more packages. It complained about needing root privileges which it already had but proceeded to install, It then wanted me to configure postfix which it then ignored my input but somehow things have come right. So thanks for the help, really not sure why it working but have happily upgraded to KDE 3.5 so that's cool. Cheers On Wednesday 07 December 2005 15:57, Chris O'Halloran wrote:
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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