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    Upgrade freezes, boots to 12.10 manually, but requires dpkg fix

    On the two of my three boxes where I did an upgrade to 12.10, the upgrade process froze when it was far along. Sorry I can't recall exactly where - I believe it was the last step before cleaning up and rebooting. In both cases, I bombed off, then rebooted, and all appears well.

    ...until I try to do any kind of upgrade when notified that some applications have updates available. Poor Muon just reports that it can't get a lock (or something like that) because some other application has root access. (I probably don't have this message exactly right). As I always do when Muan walks into a wall, I fired up Synaptic, which reported:

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

    On my netbook, when this happened, I did as suggested, and while it took a while it clearly fixed the problem.

    I report this here (as requested) in the hope that this might be useful to someone - and because I have no idea where else to report it.

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    Usually the 'not being able to get a lock' type of error just means that something else is using APT. Almost always a Package Manager is open and I'm trying to use apt-get in a Konsole.

    For those in need the -a will reconfigure all unconfigured packages. If you know you only have one package to reconfigure you can safely leave it off.
    GigaByte GA-965G-DS3, Core2Duo at 2.1 GHz, 4 GB RAM, ASUS DRW-24B1ST, LiteOn iHAS 324 A, NVIDIA 7300 GS, 500 GB and 80 GB WD HDD

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