Package: apt Version: 0.3.12 Severity: normal After updating my system earlier today, attempts to retrieve further packages produce the following error message:
--- E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the download directory --- This occurs whether using dselect, apt-get dselect-upgrade, or apt-get install [package]. I can manually delete /var/cache/apt/archives/lock, in which case apt-get will recreate the file before issuing the error message. At all times, the lock file's size has been 0. /var/cache/apt is NFS mounted from another machine and I'm not letting dselect delete downloaded packages after installing, but this has not caused any problems in the past. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux pchan 2.2.9 #5 Sun Aug 29 09:08:17 CDT 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.1-2 The GNU stdc++ library
