adetp complaining of locked database

[paridoth]

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i get this whenever i try to run adept, but i dont have anything running apt-get, i have restarted and i still get the same thing, what can i do?

[claydoh]

Re: adetp complaining of locked database

A quick search of the forums brings up this post

to delete these files (/var/lib/dpkg/lock is the probable culprit here), type this command in a terminal window:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

and then try opening Adept again. If it doesn't work, then try the other files listed in the post

[paridoth]

Re: adetp complaining of locked database

i removed the directories, however whenever i restart adept it recreates "/var/lib/dpkg/lock" and then complains of the locked packages, so i removed it once more and tried to install synaptic via

sudo apt-get install synaptic

and got this from konsole

paridoth@kubuntu-zureal:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

and i see that it recreated "/var/lib/dpkg/lock"
so i then ran

dpkg --configure -a

as it sugested and got the following

paridoth@kubuntu-zureal:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libgsf-1-common (1.13.99-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-25 (2.6.15.10-7) ...

Setting up libcroco3 (0.6.1-1build1) ...

Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules (2.6.15.10-7) ...
Setting up libgsf-1-113 (1.13.99-0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up librsvg2-2 (2.14.4-0ubuntu1) ...

which im guesing where unfinished packages?
i then ran adept which is working now =)