can't install anything

[kramer3d]

when ever i try to install anything, i get this error
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavail able)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another proc ess using it?

Also if I try to run synaptic, I get this message: You must run this as root user.

[mato]

Run synaptic as root user

in command line type:

sudo synaptic

When prompted, type your user password.

[blind0wl]

How are you trying to apt-get? Through synaptic or console...that statement is saying something all ready has the package management system open somewhere. Only one app can run it at a time, so if your trying to console apt-get and synaptic, you'll get that error message...if your not, it might be a rogue process in the background....post the output of: ps -A or reboot should fix it if your lazy :razz:

[kramer3d]

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:00 init
2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
3 ? 00:00:00 events/0
4 ? 00:00:00 khelper
22 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
101 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
139 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
140 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
142 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
141 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
729 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
1100 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
1125 ? 00:00:00 udevd
3507 ? 00:00:00 khubd
3996 ? 00:00:00 shpchpd_event
5437 ? 00:00:00 dhclient3
5797 ? 00:00:00 dd
5799 ? 00:00:00 klogd
5834 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5845 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5882 ? 00:00:14 Xorg
6536 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1
6548 ? 00:00:01 hald
6561 ? 00:00:00 inetd
6673 ? 00:00:00 master
6680 ? 00:00:00 pickup
6681 ? 00:00:00 qmgr
6833 ? 00:00:00 anacron
6844 ? 00:00:00 atd
6855 ? 00:00:00 cron
6877 tty1 00:00:00 termwrap
6878 tty2 00:00:00 getty
6879 tty3 00:00:00 getty
6977 tty1 00:00:00 script
7002 tty1 00:00:00 script
7003 pts/0 00:00:00 base-config
7372 pts/0 00:00:00 pkgsel
7412 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manag
7463 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
7466 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
7467 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1
7481 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
7505 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
7509 ? 00:00:00 esd
7510 pts/0 00:00:00 aptitude
7512 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
7518 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings-
7519 pts/0 00:00:00 http
7520 pts/0 00:00:00 cdrom
7579 ? 00:00:00 gam_server
7587 ? 00:00:00 xscreensaver
7611 ? 00:00:00 gnome-smproxy
7613 ? 00:00:01 metacity
7621 ? 00:00:02 gnome-panel
7623 ? 00:00:03 nautilus
7625 ? 00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma
7631 ? 00:00:00 update-notifier
7634 ? 00:00:00 gnome-cups-icon
7637 ? 00:00:01 wnck-applet
7639 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet
7644 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo
7651 ? 00:00:00 mapping-daemon
7656 ? 00:00:00 clock-applet
7658 ? 00:00:00 mixer_applet2
7662 ? 00:00:00 notification-ar
7672 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
7677 ? 00:00:53 firefox-bin
7704 ? 00:00:01 gaim
7995 ? 00:00:00 acpid
8027 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
8051 ? 00:00:00 gksudo
8052 ? 00:00:00 synaptic
8121 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
8142 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
8143 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
8144 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
8159 pts/1 00:00:00 ps


I still have the same problem.. please help !!

[Lord Illidan]

You already have synaptic open, maybe it is in another desktop.

8052 ? 00:00:00 synaptic

Try putting this in a terminal... killall synaptic

and reload it with sudo synaptic

[sml]

Same problem here also.

What was the solution?

I tried Ctrl-F2 etc and when X is running this does not work.