[Intrepid Ibex 8.10] Update manager lock error after install

[Mason]

I installed the beta of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a Dell Mini / Inspiron 910.

Immediately after rebooting, I ran the Update Manager, and after running for a while, it came up with a dialog box:

An error occurred
The following details are provided:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

So I'm reporting it.
-Mason

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. affecting to update-manager.

This may be a transient situation due to another instance of update-manager running, or an update of the package database running in the background.

Can you wait a moment, and retry later. Report here if it's still an issue.

Thanks in advance.

[Mason (mlt-svn)]

Well, when I click OK the dialog goes away and everything continues (apparently) just fine.

HOWEVER, I tried a complete re-installation, and the exact same thing happened. So although it is seemingly a minor error and easily bypassed, it also seems to be something that an entirely new user to Ubuntu would quickly run into and wonder what was going on.

If the source of the bug cannot be fixed, perhaps the error message could at least say something like "Try again in a minute"

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Sorry for my late reply. If this is reproducible could you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade and /var/log/apt/term.log to this bug report.

Thanks.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 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!