when dpkg can't get a lock

2008-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell 
Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate?  I was doing some 
reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested 
was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking for 
package updates.  If that's possible what might have enabled it in all the 
dictionary packages one of which was dictionary-common?




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Re: when dpkg can't get a lock

2008-09-10 Thread Florian Kulzer 
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 06:30:00 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
 Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate?  I was doing some 
 reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested  
 was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking 
 for package updates.  If that's possible what might have enabled it in 
 all the dictionary packages one of which was dictionary-common?

Run

lsof | grep /var/lib/dpkg/

as root when you run into the problem the next time; this should tell
you which process is locking dpkg at that moment.

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