keyboard stops to function in terminal

[Jacob Bahn]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After typing sudo forand to achieve super user status the keyboard stop to function!!! I.e. I can't type my password and continue. I'm a Linux beginner, and the reason I'm the terminal at all is a message I got from Synaptic. An error occurred and the details:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

I think I was trying to install Skype (setup.py) from the downloaded skype4py package. As nothing happend I started Synaptic, and got the above message. I opened a terminal and typed the above sentences.

Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel LInux 2.6.24-21-generic
GNOME 2.22.3

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 24 11:13:02 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better.

Can you please give is the exact command you tried?

For the record, it should be "sudo dpkg --configure -a" (without the quotes).

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm afraid we can't do anything about this without more information. Still, 'sudo dpkg --configure -a', as mentioned, will probably have cleaned this up.