adept_installer giving me a strange error...

[callMeTom]

Adept installer is giving me the following error.

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 know what this means, I just don't know which process to quit and what I did to cause this. I tried rebooting but since this saves my state what ever process must have started again. Could someone also throw in how to restart without saving open apps etc. I know how to turn that off, but I didn't know if there was a way to do it once for just one reboot.

The last thing I did was use adept_installer to install a bunch of Java stuff. I (accidentally) didn't agree to the first EULA I was showed but everything else went fine. I went back in to try to install the Java part that I didn't agree to (don't know which it was) and I got this error. Following is a list of all of my running processes please let me know which to kill.

tom@tomputer:~$ ps -Aww
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
4 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
5 ? 00:00:00 events/0
6 ? 00:00:00 khelper
7 ? 00:00:00 kthread
30 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
31 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
32 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
64 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
88 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
89 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
90 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
91 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
2012 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
2013 ? 00:00:00 khubd
2085 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
2086 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
2236 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2435 ? 00:00:02 udevd
3296 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
3984 tty4 00:00:00 getty
3985 tty5 00:00:00 getty
3989 tty2 00:00:00 getty
3992 tty3 00:00:00 getty
3995 tty1 00:00:00 getty
3996 tty6 00:00:00 getty
4021 ? 00:00:00 vboxadd-timesyn
4257 ? 00:00:00 acpid
4360 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
4407 ? 00:00:09 dd
4409 ? 00:00:01 klogd
4430 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4446 ? 00:00:03 hald
4447 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
4453 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
4461 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
4468 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
4480 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
4494 ? 00:00:00 dhcdbd
4509 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
4527 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
4528 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
4544 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManagerD
4595 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
4619 ? 00:00:00 hpiod
4621 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
4628 ? 00:00:00 python
4683 ? 00:00:00 dirmngr
4767 ? 00:00:00 hcid
4784 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
4820 ? 00:00:00 atd
4834 ? 00:00:00 cron
4932 ? 00:00:00 kdm
4966 tty7 00:00:19 Xorg
4976 ? 00:00:00 kdm
5000 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manag
5047 ? 00:00:00 vboxadd-xclient
5049 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
5052 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
5053 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5088 ? 00:00:00 start_kdeinit
5089 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
5092 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
5095 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
5097 ? 00:00:02 kded
5102 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper
5104 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
5105 ? 00:00:04 kwin
5107 ? 00:00:04 kdesktop
5109 ? 00:00:11 kicker
5126 ? 00:00:05 artsd
5129 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
5131 ? 00:00:00 katapult
5132 ? 00:00:00 konqueror
5134 ? 00:00:01 kmix
5138 ? 00:00:00 knotify
5140 ? 00:00:00 kio_uiserver
5145 ? 00:00:00 klipper
5149 ? 00:00:00 kbluetoothd
5151 ? 00:00:00 passkey-agent
5153 ? 00:00:00 knetworkmanager
5155 ? 00:00:01 konqueror
5156 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
5185 ? 00:00:00 aspell
5190 ? 00:00:00 kdesud
5232 ? 00:00:08 artsd
5298 ? 00:00:01 konsole
5299 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
5355 pts/1 00:00:00 ps
tom@tomputer:~$

Thanks for your help. I new to Linux, but have been using computers for a very long time, so feel free to get technical, I'll appreciate any useful info on this anyone can give.

-Tom

[penguin.ch]

Re: adept_installer giving me a strange error...

For starters, you may try:

ROOT # dpkg --configure --pending

and, if this failed, as well:

ROOT # dpkg --audit

I dare to say that you're being "blocked" not by a process "on the run" but by a lock file of sorts which may or may not have become stale ... anyway, as proven by a lot of posts, trying to install Java through Adept is really not a good idea - use Synaptic or, even better, APT/DPKG directly (read: without graphical interface) to get things going ...

[callMeTom]

Re: adept_installer giving me a strange error...

Thanks, the first suggestion worked. Looks like I made a bit of a Linux noob mistake. I've been using OS X's command line and some SSH stuff for a long time now, just goes to show that this is a whole new ball game. Glad you guys are here to help.

-Tom

[sbop]

Re: adept_installer giving me a strange error...

I have the problem. Yet when i try the solution suggested here it says: bash: ROOT: command not found
Any ideas ??

edit: when i try su it wont accept my password

[eriefisher]

Re: adept_installer giving me a strange error...

Try:

sudo dpkg --configure --pending