Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.18 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
When I tried to upgrade from aptitude: Performing actions... Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 509222 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libapt-pkg5.0_1.4~beta3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.4~beta3) over (1.4~beta2) ... Setting up libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.4~beta3) ... dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process ====== How can you help? (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ====== ----- Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old ----- E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-8) ... Press Return to continue, 'q' followed by Return to quit. The only other process matching apt and dpkg is aptitude itself. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 ii tar 1.29b-1.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.4~beta2 -- no debconf information
