Confirmed on two very different machines, this happened to me on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, and an AMD X64 4800 desktop.
It does seem to only need a text change to the error message to imform teh user what to do, as the original reporter said, to provide a satisfactory fix, but it would be even better to automate this. -- Poor resolution of "database locked" problem https://launchpad.net/bugs/48627 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs