On Saturday 08 July 2006 09:20, Stephen Fahey wrote: > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission > denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), > are you root? >
You cannot run two simulataneous processes both of which will upgrade packages on your system. For example you cannot run two apt-get sessions or apt-get+synaptic sessions etc., simultaneously. To make sure that there are no such simultaneous sessions what apt does is to create a lock file. If the lock file is present other process cannot upgrade the packages. What would have happened in your case is that one of your apt-get/synaptic/aptitude sessions were stopped abruptly. So the lock file was not deleted. you can kill the corresponding apt-get/synaptic/aptitude process by doing pkill apt-get as root. Substitude apt-get with your package manager. After that everything should be fine. > I've tried rebooting to no effect. If you are using Debian (or any other Linux for that matter), normally you can trouble shoot a problem without rebooting. Rebooting is M$ way of solving problems. Do you want to be perceived as a clueless M$ user? raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
