Adept manager is holding add/remove programs files hostage
Bug #194977 reported by
Mark Steele
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #48627: Poor resolution of "database locked" problem.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
adept manager was updating and failed part way into the installs after downloading them all. I'm a new to Linux user, so I did the old MS "restart" trick... didn't help. After the failure, it seemed to be holding my add/remove programs files hostage also.. can't ask to add Firefox.. very frustrating! I'm using "Gutsy Gibbon" 7.10. This is the text of the error window whose title is: "Database locked-adept installer", Another process is using the packaging system database (probably some other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Would you like to attempt to resolve this problem? No will enter read-only mode and Cancel to quit and resolve this issue yourself.
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| Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
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| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Mark,
thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This is actually an occurrence of a known issue (bug 48627) that is being worked on. I will mark this report as a duplicate and you can follow developments in the other thread. In the short term running the following command should solve your problem:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
this tells dpkg to configure the remaining packages that were interrupted and should then release the database lock.
Hope that helps,
Rich