Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of course it tells me that: dpkg: status database area is locked - another dpkg/dselect is running What do I do to fix this? I was in the middle of installing rc564 so it wasn't anything mission critical. TIA, Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Brandon On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of course it tells me that: dpkg: status database area is locked - another dpkg/dselect is running What do I do to fix this? I was in the

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. Thanks, Adam. Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/{lock,methlock}

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
That's what I was after. Thank you very much. Adam. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/{lock,methlock} -- Scott K. Ellis