On Sunday 13 April 2008 20:25:20 you wrote: > ........................................................................... >..................... > > This was a fresh install onto a second hard drive on a reasonably > well-spec'd machine. The drive had previously been used for an earlier > version of Kubuntu, the other drive included M/s XP. > > The original installation seemed to proceed without a hitch but seized when > a large volume of files (73 ?) was requested by the automated update. The > download stopped about half-way through with a message to the effect that > to contnue would have caused problems. > > Repeating the attempt to update update the installation achieved the same > result. > > The main log from var/log/dist-upgrade reads as follows: > > 2008-03-01 14:34:51,214 INFO release-upgrader version '0.81' started > 2008-03-01 14:34:51,806 DEBUG lsb-release: 'gutsy' > 2008-03-01 14:34:51,806 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run > 2008-03-01 14:34:52,714 ERROR Cache can not be locked (E:dpkg was > interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the > problem. ) > > Hope this helps. > > I am quite happy to run any tests/processes you might find useful - this > installation is not critical - I keep another machine for my main work. > > Thanks for your interest > > Peter
PS - apt.log reads: Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-peterp" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. updateStatus: Reading cache updateStatus: Checking package manager -- Installing Kubuntu 7.10 - libportaudio 0 no longer supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189046 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
