Waiting for package manager lock hangs

[Bluppie]

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

When selecting an software item it asks for an permiss. After that it hangs till I restart Kubuntu. Then the hole Kpackagekit can restart but hangs again when I select an other package and try to install it. Cash problem????

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kpackagekit 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 3 11:55:39 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl_NL:nl:de:en
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kpackagekit

[Bluppie (benhyper)]

I have run "sudu apt-get update" and after an error massage "sudo dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem.
But an error massage is given.
/var/lib/dpkg/lock and /var/lib/dpkg/ are locket and not accessible. Is it used by an other program?

[Rohan Garg (rohangarg)]

Hi
Usually a update manager is running in the background according to the preferences you set,and at one time only one package manager can be run.This is causing the problem,please disable the update checker and try again.

[Bluppie (benhyper)]

update checker is now disabled and after an reset all is well.