On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 13:24:34 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Last night I did a complete reinstall of debian and am in the sid > distribution now. That was to clear the iceape problem. A few minutes > ago though this same thing happened when installing nethack-common a > totally unrelated package. Something almost for sure is broken with the > debian package update system. The "lsof | egrep | apt | dpkg returned no > results other than the help screen.
Try this command as root (or with sudo): lsof /var/lib/dpkg/{lock,status} -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]