Re: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-17 Thread Brian C
Hi, I describe a partial solution and the next problem below. David Kirchner wrote: On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect to create the lockfile it wa

Re: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-16 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/16/05, Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile > > but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect > to create the lockfile it wants to? I'm not sure where it would put the lockfile, but you

dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile

2005-12-16 Thread Brian C
plies: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile I've tried creating several /var subdirectories that I think dselect might be looking for, including: /var/cache/apt/archives/ /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ but I still get the same