[Bug 1022386] Re: Unable to obtain lock file:///etc/ held by root

2013-08-20 Thread jezzman
You might want to run "sudo bzr break-lock /etc". ^^^ This line worked 100% for me, after surfing the net for ages, finding a whole bunch of crud about killing processes and looking for files, uninstalling etckeeper. this single line got me back to "apt-get

[Bug 1022386] Re: Unable to obtain lock file:///etc/ held by root

2012-07-08 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Something killed bzr earlier, and there is still an open lock for it. You might want to run "sudo bzr break-lock /etc". ** Changed in: etckeeper (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Converted to question: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etckeeper/+question/202609 -- You re