adept trouble

[capesidereal]

i386 laptop

i use grub to boot
when i boot with latest kernelimage, kubuntu hangs at second progressiongraphic.
when i do ctrl+alt+del  all processes get closed as usual as the list scrolls down...

i'm able to boot from a previous kernelimage but :
i'm not able to use adept : it complains another instance is running but when checking with top i can't notice anything. i don't use synaptic or apt.
eventually adept will run but in read-only mode, i can't fetch or apply updates.

anyone ?

Cape

[phontanka]

Re: adept trouble

I've got the same issue as far as adept is concerned. After typing my password it gives me the following message:

"You will not be able to change your system settings in any way (install, remove or upgrade software), because another process is using the packaging system database (probably some other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Please close the other application before using this one."

Any ideas?

[capesidereal]

Re: adept trouble

my first issue (bootproblem) was fixed when booting in recoverymode
after login :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg 8)

i'm still strugglin with the adept-issue :
it keeps telling me :

Another process is using the packaging system database (probably some other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Please close the other application before using this one.

[Nirvana]

Re: adept trouble

try

sudo killall dpkg; sudo killall apt; sudo killall adept; sudo killall aptitude

Or, remove the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives (I think, I'm on Windows right now and can't check.)

edit: spelling and thanks to -cool-dud-prav for nudging me to put it into the right forum.

[phontanka]

Re: adept trouble

When using sudo killall dpkg; sudo killall apt; sudo killall adept; sudo killall aptitude it said no processes were killed.

How do I delete the lock file? I can't login as root... (I'm quite new to this stuff, sorry)

[korga]

Re: adept trouble

I tried everithing what you mentioned above. I tried to kill evrithing that you said. I deleted evry file in the /var/cache/apt direktory but it doesen't helped.
I think it is keep saying that I can't change anything since i've rebooted the system during using adept... Maybe there is the problem...

[korga]

Re: adept trouble

try this : dpkg --configure -a
it helped me.

[Saint Jerome]

Re: adept trouble

I am having the exact same problem and none of the solutions so far have helped at all.

[gandalf100]

Re: adept trouble

i had also a similar trouble with adept:
i wanted to install java and adept couldnt show the terms of condition for java the install didnt continue - so killed the installation. then i had the same trouble. what i did, was to install this package again with apt-get. from this point it was ok again.
the problem was, that dpkg was in action but invisible for me. i couldnt kill anything.
another issue could bethe updatetool which is maybe in use.

[canadian]

Re: adept trouble

i had also a similar trouble with adept:
i wanted to install java and adept couldnt show the terms of condition for java the install didnt continue - so killed the installation. then  i had the same trouble. what i did, was to install this package again with apt-get. from this point it was ok again.
the problem was, that dpkg was in action but invisible for me. i couldnt kill anything.
another issue could bethe updatetool which is maybe in use.

me too and I get this :

Another process is using the packaging system database (probably some other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Please close the other application before using this one.

I tried the above suggestions, rebooted, shut off computer and still get that message............

[canadian]

Re: adept trouble

i had also a similar trouble with adept:
i wanted to install java and adept couldnt show the terms of condition for java the install didnt continue - so killed the installation. then  i had the same trouble. what i did, was to install this package again with apt-get. from this point it was ok again.
the problem was, that dpkg was in action but invisible for me. i couldnt kill anything.
another issue could bethe updatetool which is maybe in use.

I typed this: /var/cache/apt/archives into Konqueror and went to the sunjre icons and right clicked and clicked intaller and once i installed the jre packages adept went back to normal.