Weird Adept Error

[MatthewSchenker]

I am not able to access Adept all of a sudden. When I try to enter it, either through the "Add/Remove Programs" or through the "Adept manager" I get the following error box:

Database Locked - Adept manager
Another process is using the packaging system database
(probably some other Adept application or apt-get or
aptitude)

Would you like to attempt to resolve this problem? No will
enter read-only mode and Cancel to quit and resolve this
issue yourself.

If I tell it to resolve the issue, the system crashes. I have restarted my computer, even shutting the power down completely. Still, if I try to access Adept I get the same error again. What other application could be running Adept?

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thanks,
Matt

[blobfish]

Re: Weird Adept Error

First I would try: Bring up ksysgaurd and kill anything with adept or dpkg. KDE tries to restore the previous session(if set to do so), including crashed processes.

[brasslover]

Re: Weird Adept Error

There may also be a lock file hanging out there from an abnormally terminated process (apt, dpkg, adept, synaptic, etc.)

You might check this thread for more details on what to look for.

[Snowhog]

Re: Weird Adept Error

If Adept won't restart after a package install and
reports:
"Another process is using the packaging system
database (probably some other adept
application or apt-get or aptitude)..."
Open a konsole and run the following:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

If that does not work, then run:
sudo apt-get -f install

The following are not required to fix the problem:
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install

[MatthewSchenker]

Re: Weird Adept Error

I did the Konsole fix. It appears that something got installed with OpenOffice that was causing the problem. I told it to keep the "currently-installed version."

Here's the Konsole session:

matthew@Main:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for matthew:
Setting up libc6 (2.6.1-1ubuntu10) ...

Setting up libqt3-mt (3:3.3.8really3.3.7-0ubuntu11.1) ...

Configuration file `/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : background this process to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** qt_plugins_3.3rc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? N

Setting up openoffice.org-kde (1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.1) ...

Setting up kdesudo (1.1-0ubuntu2.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
matthew@Main:~$


Adept is running again now.

Thanks for the help!

Matt

[Snowhog]

Re: Weird Adept Error

You're welcome.