Error on attempt to update

[Award4thewin]

Anyone know how to fix this?
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

tried manually running sudo dpkg but failed. Also tried closing panels of gnome and going back to default settings:

gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

pkill gnome-panel

Still didn't work. When I tried pkilling it another error prompted telling me that something was in use.

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[jtarin]

What package were you trying to install?
Try
sudo dpkg --configure <packagename>
Refer to the command
man dpkg

[Award4thewin]

thank you for that, I appreciate the input. It's just that I'm trying to install 46 updated packages... I think and I believe it's telling me that I have to do it manually which would be tedious and lame. Any chance there's a way to streamline the operation?

[jtarin]

Why was Dpkg interrupted? It would help if you knew where the process was interrupted.
No it is telling you to run that command which will affect all.

[Award4thewin]

as soon as I tried the pkill line it gave me an error

[jtarin]

Any chance there's a way to streamline the operation?Yes run the command it tells you to in the terminal. You have to type it manually....sorry Ubuntu is'nt that advance to enter terminal commands.

[jtarin]

as soon as I tried the pkill line it gave me an error
You've got two seperate issues going on. I suggest you post your panel problem under another topic.