When this happened to me, synaptic was holding the lock, and the instance opened by update-manager was trying to aquire it
-- update-apt-xapian-index crashed with DatabaseLockError in __init__() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
