on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:39:57PM +0100, Mark Ayliffe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
Are you running as root? If not, do. > 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. Hrm. So your problem's solved? Try also: strace <foo> ...where <foo> is some command and arguments. Usually the error will be evident in output (note ther emay be lots of it). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? By failing to protect the public interest in free access to the products of the inventive and artistic genius -- indeed, by virtually ignoring the central purpose of the Copyright/Patent Clause [in the Constitution] -- the Court has quitclaimed to Congress its principal responsibility in this area of the law." -- Justice Stevens, J., dissenting, "Eldred v. Ashcroft"
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