Comment 16 for bug 665572

Hi Andrea
Actually, at that level I am a non-techie too. I reported the problem
when it happened, but by the time I had used the update manager a couple
of times the problem apparently just fixed itself because somebody who
did know what they were doing applied a fix, patch , whatever, to the
appropriate package. Seems to have had something to do with that stupid
front that makes the PC look like a phone/pad. Now gone back to Gnome 2.

Cheers, Ralph

On 31/08/2011 1:21 PM, Andrea Hall wrote:
> Hi, I have a similar prob:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 179, in _process_transaction
> self.commit_packages(*self.trans.packages)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 227, in commit_packages
> self._commit_changes()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 738, in _commit_changes
> self._cache.commit(fetch_progress, inst_progress)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
> return func(*args, **kwds)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 427, in commit
> res = self.install_archives(pm, install_progress)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/deprecation.py", line 98, in deprecated_function
> return func(*args, **kwds)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 394, in install_archives
> install_progress.finish_update()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/progress.py", line 264, in finish_update
> lock.status_lock.acquire()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/lock.py", line 66, in acquire
> raise LockFailedError(self.path, process)
> LockFailedError
>
> So, in easy to understand terms for a non-techie, what do I do?
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>