synaptic package manager is unable to reload and get informations about new updates

[Jinto]

Binary package hint: synaptic

jinto@jinto-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
jinto@jinto-laptop:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 13 21:03:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.61ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Chris S (csabo2)]

Jinto,
Generally the reason you will see this message is that the system updater (GUI) is running, check the "system tray" for the sunburst Icon, if located right click and exit. then try updating again.

Thanks

[soldierboy101st (soldierboy101st)]

I'm having the same problem. I am:

-using 'sudo' before the command

and trying:

-sudo killall update-notifier
-sudo killall apt
-sudo killall aptitude
-sudo killall synaptic

Then retrying the update to no avail.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? May you please try the same with Jaunty? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.