Farid Ansari wrote: > Hi Karl, > I tried it after 3 hours but still got the same message. Right clicked > the small icon on the taskbar and said quit. Still unable to add-remove > programmes cause some other system is working. > Farid >
Hi mate, i'd like you to open a terminal (konsole) and run `lsof |grep lock` and include the output in an email to us :) do you have a konsole open with apt running? that could cause a problem. kk > On 7/22/07, *Karl Goetz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Farid Ansari wrote: > > I installed the Kubuntu 7.10 Beta and last night gor the updates > which > > were about 350 mb. The updates installed smoothly. > > This morning when I started Kubuntu I got the message that there > were 48 > > more updates available. When I clicked the get updates notification it > > did not start the update and the following message was displayed:- > > > > Datebase Locked- Adept Updater > > > > Another process is using the packaging system ( probably > some > > other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude ). > > Please close the other applications before using this one. > > > > I do not know what pther applicaton is running and how to close it. > > Please someone advise because the required updates include Firefox and > > Thunderbird Mail which I desperately need. > > > > As I am a newbie I would appreciate detailed commands for shutting > down > > the applications. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > Farid Ansari > > Karachi, Pakistan > > > > > > leave it 15 minutes, and try again. > kk > -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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