Hi Damien Couroussé! 2010/2/26 Damien Couroussé <[email protected]>: > apt-get source reports an error while trying to acquire locks under > /var/lib/apt/lists Thanks for your report! For your next one i have a little tip: Preface a command with LANG=C to enforce english output to help unlucky people like me who had by now never the chance to learn French… (Latin for the win) ;)
For reference, your error in plain english should be: E: Could not get lock %s - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Could not open file %s - open (2: No such file or directory) Both english strings are translated in the same way in fr.po… (CC'ing Christian Perrier as this looks like a bug in the translation) Looking at the sourcecode i guess E: Could not open file <xyz> - open (2: No such file or directory) is really meant as these files aren't lockfiles… > - apt-get is run without root superuser power, > - non other apt/aptitude processes are running at the same time, > - except for downloading source packages from time to time, I do not > use apt (I assume this is the reason why the lock files where not > available); I use aptitude for system maintenance and installation of > new packages. > - the problem was solved by manually creating the required files as a root > user. Do you have by chance added recently deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main contrib non-free to your sources.list ? Or to be specific: After your last "apt-get update" (or "aptitude update") ? At least it is reproducible for me in this case. So apt-get should display a friendlier message indicating the possible solution i guess… (apt-get update, not creating various empty files). I will have a deeper look into it - thanks for pointing it out so far! benignis cum salutibus, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
