IOError: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Binary package hint: gdebi

Installing a home made deb (using equivs-build) gdebi crashes out.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gdebi", line 95, in <module>
    debi.install()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/GDebi/GDebiCli.py", line 105, in install
    res = self._cache.commit(fprogress,iprogress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 200, in commit
    res = self._fetchArchives(fetcher, pm)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/cache.py", line 144, in _fetchArchives
    raise IOError, "Failed to lock %s" % lockfile
IOError: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

alan@box:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
rm: cannot remove `/var/cache/apt/archives/lock': No such file or directory

Run it again, the same thing happens.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

I can install the package with

sudo dpkg -i foo.deb
then
sudo apt-get -f install

but this isnt nice.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Could you please try this again with the current gdebi from feisty? sudo gdebi foo.deb should work

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