Argh! Not sure what's going on here.
I fire up aptitude, hit 'g' to look at what's about to be
installed/removed/whatever, hit 'g' again, download completes[1], and:
Apt errors
W: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode
[ Ok ]
Well, that's a bummer. I don't have any apt or dpkg related process
running ... and besides, it doesn't actually say it couldn't get a lock
file; it says it couldn't lock the cache file, which seems like a
different statement entirely? I did nuke the following:
rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
rm /var/lib/aptitude/lock
rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
based on this link:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg92551.html>
... no effect.
I'm guessing fuser would be helpful here, if I knew the name of the
cache file. I tried `fuser /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin` and got no
output.
The bug lists for aptitude and apt don't seem to be pertinent, although
there are enough bugs listed in the apt package that I might have missed
something.
Any ideas?
[1] Download is actually empty, as I updated my package list about a
week ago. The theory is that I can let packages sit on the server for a
few days and then see if any new bugs have been filed before I actually
update my system with these new packages. Also, I'm sucking packages
down through apt-cacher, not that I would think it matters.
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monique
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