adept manager problem

[cosmo18]

whenever I try to run the adept package manager it gives me an error message that says "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 have not started any other package managers and I even tried

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

how do I find what other program is running and shut it down?

[Gediminas2]

Re: adept manager problem

1.did you try rebooting the system?

2. sudo apt-get -f install

[cosmo18]

Re: adept manager problem

1.did you try rebooting the system?

2. sudo apt-get -f install

1. I have rebooted and even from a fresh reboot with nothing else running it gives me the same error message
2. when I ran this command I got this error

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[dibl]

Re: adept manager problem

Did you try

sudo dpkg configure -a

?

[penguin.ch]

Re: adept manager problem

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed

An(other) "old story": http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...49797#msg49797

[cosmo18]

Re: adept manager problem

Did you try

sudo dpkg configure -a

?

yes when I run that I get this error

Starting VMware services:
  Virtual machine monitor                      failed
  Virtual ethernet                          failed
Module vmnet is not loaded. Please verify that it is loaded before
running this script.

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:

[cosmo18]

Re: adept manager problem

I ran

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update

and that seems to have fixed it, thanks for the help