On Thursday, November 03, 2011 06:50:42 PM, Robert Mark Wallace wrote: > When I try to use Muon, it says that another package manager is running. > PS command says that only bash and PS are running. > > I did have a problem with Muon hanging just before. I pushed the power > button as computer was refusing to shut down and wasn't doing anything.
Usually when a package manager is working, it takes a file lock -- usually a filename like ".lock" and thus because it starts with a "." the file is hidden such that only "ls -a" will show it. Hopefully when you try to run the package manager again, it will complain and tell you where the lock file is. ... > KDE has done a remarkable job of working the bugs out of 4 and now looks > more stable than Windows 7 which kept asking me if I wanted to force a > shutdown. KDE 4 has come a long way. There are a couple of things that are still missing, such as being able to see and cancel print jobs. So instead I have to log into the internal web page for CUPS in order to do that. And it's important to turn off "desktop search" features (Nepomuk and Strigi) for performance reasons, which default to both being on. Other than those minor issues, I think KDE 4 is cool. > I suspect that I have to terminate something in command line but I can't > get the syntax right. I usually get a 'ps -ef' to list all of the processes, and then kill a process by process ID using 'kill <PID>', such as 'kill 1234'. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server
