Thinking about this a little more -- perhaps the problem is also the method of locking. Users wouldn't get this error message half the time in the first place if the lock was cleaned up when apt/synaptic/etc crashed, not just when it exited normally.
-- Apt's unable to acquire lock message isn't user friendly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
