Terminal stuck installing configuring-sun-java-6

[Arturo]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I have already tried 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' and the terminal starts working again. but as soon as I try to install something else such as VLC in the terminal the Java instalatio screen comes back in the same blue screen where it had gotten stuck.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 25 17:30:58 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/arturo
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux arturo-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

[tiggsy (frann-leach)]

This happened to me, too. I don't know if it means the package has installed correctly or what. There's an <Ok> under the scrolling bit, but you can't select it and Enter does not do anything

[tiggsy (frann-leach)]

Even if you close terminal and reopen it, any further commands get "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?" even though there is nothing else which should be using it. So presumably, the java thingy is still supposedly doing something, even though it really isn't.

This all started when I executed this command:

sudo apt-get install alsa-oss compizconfig-settings-manager faad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-pitfdll liblame0 sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar w32codecs

as per instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683

[alpha-X-geek (alpha-x-geek)]

Do you realise that you have to use the tab key to select "OK"? Not the arrow keys.

[Roy (ucanskixc)]

cotton pickin I was waiting for Sunjava to install and all I had to do is hit tab then enter GRRR!!!
Thanks I will know for the future!

[kushykush (kushykush)]

It appears sunjava is seeking license permission and wants an 'OK' or 'I agree' from the end user. But the process does not discontinue. I now get an error when I try to "add/remove" programs. I get the following popup from Ubuntu:

"This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'."