Another process is using the packaging system???????

[gingersoul]

I am trying to install some things using Adept manager and an error message comes up saying "Another process is using the packaging system database(prob some other Adept application..)and then Adept manager becomes a readonly application.... I cant see what else is running. Can anyone help me?

[gingersoul]

Re: Another process is using the packaging system?

oopps i just read some other postings and found a possible solution

[doppeljr]

Re: Another process is using the packaging system?

I was having the same problem and ran the procedure in this thread:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087169.0

That did the trick for me.

[claydoh]

Re: Another process is using the packaging system?

If the above doesn't help, there is probably a 'lock' file left behind from another adept/apt session that didn't close cleanly. This lock file prevents more than one instance of a package manager from running at the same time. The file can be in a couple of different locations, so an easy way to find where it is, is to run apt from thew command line:

sudo apt-get dist-update

this will spit out a more informative error message, similar to this:

E: Could not get lock [b]/var/lib/dpkg/lock[/b] - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

In this instance, the file is /var/lib/dpkg/lock is the file you would delete.