Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process usi?

[koosfoto.hu]

Greetings!

Since several days I have the message:

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

when I try to install something (like FileZilla).

Of course, all applications are closed, and even, when nothing else is running but the Adept Installer... it still displays:

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.

When I say Yes... and I start to install... it stops at 38%. And that's it. Nothing to do, but to kill it.

I went through the steps in post: http://ubuntuforums.orgshowthread.php?t=519612
and still does not work.

I am using Kubuntu on an Acer notebook.

How can I make it work again?

Thanks,

Tamas

[taurus]

Look at the output of this command to see if you have another process that uses adept.


ps -A

[koosfoto.hu]

Hello taurus!

This is the list I got:

ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
6 ? 00:00:00 events/0
7 ? 00:00:00 khelper
41 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
44 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
45 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
135 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
173 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
174 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
175 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
216 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
1467 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
1470 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1522 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
1528 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
1531 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
2223 ? 00:00:01 scsi_eh_0
2225 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
2349 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
2350 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
2351 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_4
2395 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
2601 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2819 ? 00:00:00 udevd
3097 ? 00:00:00 kmmcd
3102 ? 00:00:00 tifm
3108 ? 00:00:00 pccardd
3121 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
4439 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
4766 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4767 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4771 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4772 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4774 tty6 00:00:00 getty
4945 ? 00:00:00 acpid
4972 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/0
5050 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
5104 ? 00:00:00 dd
5106 ? 00:00:00 klogd
5128 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5144 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
5158 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManagerD
5178 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
5179 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
5225 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
5284 ? 00:00:00 winbindd
5322 ? 00:00:00 dhcdbd
5327 ? 00:00:00 winbindd
5342 ? 00:00:00 hald
5345 ? 00:00:00 console-kit-dae
5407 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
5421 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
5434 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
5452 ? 00:00:01 hald-addon-stor
5483 ? 00:00:00 hcid
5497 ? 00:00:00 btaddconn
5498 ? 00:00:00 btdelconn
5504 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd-serv
5508 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd-serv
5513 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
5548 ? 00:00:00 atd
5562 ? 00:00:00 cron
5660 ? 00:00:00 kdm
5690 tty7 00:06:31 Xorg
5704 tty1 00:00:00 getty
6006 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
6086 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
6373 ? 00:00:01 artsd
6417 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
6458 ? 00:00:08 adept_installer
6532 pts/3 00:00:00 dpkg
6533 pts/3 00:00:00 frontend
6539 pts/3 00:00:00 msttcorefonts.c
6548 pts/3 00:00:00 whiptail
6744 ? 00:00:00 kdm
6770 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
6771 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
6781 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manag
6852 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
6854 ? 00:00:00 gpg-agent
6917 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
6918 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
6923 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit4
6924 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
6926 ? 00:00:01 kded4
6931 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper4
6933 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
6936 ? 00:01:34 kwin
6938 ? 00:00:49 plasma
6940 ? 00:00:17 knotify4
6947 ? 00:00:01 krunner
6963 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
6966 ? 00:00:00 kmix
6968 ? 00:15:34 firefox
6971 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
6987 ? 00:00:26 dolphin
7015 ? 00:00:00 python
7018 ? 00:00:00 knetworkmanager
7019 ? 00:00:04 adept_notifier
7022 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
7025 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver
7028 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
7043 ? 00:00:00 kded
7049 ? 00:00:00 thunderbird
7064 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
7068 ? 00:00:24 thunderbird-bin
7095 ? 00:00:00 knotify
7098 ? 00:00:03 klipper
7114 ? 00:00:00 kpowersave
7459 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
7513 ? 00:00:00 kwrite
7565 ? 00:00:10 skype
7885 ? 00:00:01 kwrite
7955 ? 00:00:02 kio_thumbnail
7958 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
7961 ? 00:00:00 kwrite
7967 ? 00:00:00 kwrite
7991 ? 00:00:00 konsole
7992 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
8009 pts/1 00:00:00 ps

Uff, quite a lot is running now...

Thanks!

Tamas

[itisbasi]

# sudo kill 6458

[taurus]

Hello taurus!

This is the list I got:

ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD

6458 ? 00:00:08 adept_installer
6532 pts/3 00:00:00 dpkg



There you go. Maybe kill those two processes and see if you can run apt-get from a terminal again.


sudo kill -9 6458
sudo kill -9 6532
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[koosfoto.hu]

Hi itisbasi, taurus!

I killed both... and this is the result of the update:

light@MIND:~$ sudo kill -9 6458
[sudo] password for light:
light@MIND:~$ sudo kill -9 6532
light@MIND:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release [58.5kB]
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages [119kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages [7487B]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources [22.5kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources [892B]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages [58.0kB]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources [9367B]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages [11.2kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources [1105B]
Fetched 289kB in 3s (95.4kB/s)
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
light@MIND:~$ dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege

Sorry... it is still...

Next step?

Thanks!

Tamas

[taurus]

You need to include the sudo in front since you want to run it with root privilege.


sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[koosfoto.hu]

Thanks for your patiance and help!
Wow... this last one was stupid from me... Yes, I should have known sudo.

So, it WORKS now!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!

Greetings

Tamas