I had a problem updating my two unstable machines this morning. I got the message "Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)". Looking through the archive of this illustrious list I found several suggestions that another copy of dselect (or presumably apt-get) must be running. This was not so, the first instance happened part way through the installation phase, after the download was complete. It also recurred after an init 1.
I found that deleting /var/lib/dpkg/lock did not solve the problem and a new instance was created on each attempt. However deleting that file and /var/lib/dpkg/methlock allowed the installtion to complete successfully. HTH Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
