Thanks for the reply, Jeff. After reinstalling apt, aptitude and dpkg, I still had the same problem.
-mk > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Aptitude and apt-get > > > Mike Kuhar, 2002-Sep-10 04:03 -0400: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I've got a strange one. As root, in aptitude, I'll do an update > > successfully. Then I do an upgrade, the files download, > > the progress bar will not show total progress, just progress per > > file, then reset to 0% for the next file. When the files > > complete downloading, I hit a carrige return to go to the > > installation phase, I get an error telling me that aptitude > > couldn't lock the cache, and will open it read only, and > > the upgrade stops. > > > > Using apt-get, I update successfully, I do upgrade, the files start > > downloading, again, instead of getting a total progress percentage > > at the begining of each line, I just get some bogus number. When > > downloading is complete, I get an error message telling me that > > every file I just watched download is missing, and maybe I should > > try again with --fix-missing. > > > > If I do something like 'apt-get --reinstall install apt', this > > works. If I use apt-get to install a new package, it installs > > the new package successfully along with any dependancies. > > > > I'm running unstable with the 2.4.19 kernel on three machines, > > and this strange behavior only affects one machine. Anyone one got > > any ideas as to the problem? > > After you reinstall apt, do you get this problem again at all? It > seems like you had dpkg, dselect, apt or aptitude running somewhere > else whily tried to do the update. By reinstalling, that would stop > any other apt processess to reinstall, which would remove the lock. > > just a thought...jc > > -- > Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer > Diggin' Debian Admin and User > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
