Hi Rodney - First make sure you don't have aptitude, apt or dpkg or dselect, or synaptic, or gnome-apt etc etc in the middle of something somewhere on another login/console. The remove the lock files... ok lets see if I can remember all of them. rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock rm /var/lib/aptitude/lock rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock I've got a hunch there might be another one - these seem to work for me 50% of the time though - Disclaimer - I really don't know the consequences of doing this, it just seems to fix the problem for me Good luck Glenn
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 09:34, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade my friends laptop. As root, running "aptitude > update". it does it's thing, but at the end I get this message; > > Fetched 2914kB in 41s (69.4kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... Done > W: Warning: could not lock the cache file file. Opened in read-only mode > > What is this error, how do I get his fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
