On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:36:54 +1000 Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ .. ] > > In all cases, aptitude, once started in the normal fashion, downloads > any remaining packages and then reports "Warning: could not lock the > cache file. Opening in read-only mode". > > Anyone got any ideas?
I'm not familiar with apt, but when all else fails, I run stuff from "strace -f ..." -- just to find out what exactly the lock is meant to be. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
