mads2106
April 28th, 2012, 08:23 PM
Hi.
I have recently upgraded to 12.04, and its all jolly nice, but when I installed dropbox it had a few problems, but it started working with a few tries.
Now my software center is jammed because of a process called "Searching" underneath "applying changes"
When I try to cancel it, it just says "canceling" underneath instead, but the bar doesn't move, and it has sat like that for an hour now.
I have tried force quitting the program, restarting my computer etc. but nothing has changed.
I found some other people with similar problems, and some suggestions were to use "sudo dpkg --configure -a", but then it just tells me that: "dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process"
I have tried restarting my computer without opening the software center, and retrying the command, but same story there.
Another suggestion was to go to update manager and reset it, but I can't even open it properly.
It says following: "It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first."
I have then tried the last command, but no luck.
Largely similar response as to the first command i tried.
I have then tried to uninstall dropbox, but as the software center will only do one process at a time, and it is currently stuck... well you guessed it.
Do any of you know how to force it to stop the nonsense and cancel that stupid process for good? :confused:
Thanks in advance.
Update:
The issue somehow solved it self over the night. I have no idea what happened, but there is no process running in the software center now.
I have recently upgraded to 12.04, and its all jolly nice, but when I installed dropbox it had a few problems, but it started working with a few tries.
Now my software center is jammed because of a process called "Searching" underneath "applying changes"
When I try to cancel it, it just says "canceling" underneath instead, but the bar doesn't move, and it has sat like that for an hour now.
I have tried force quitting the program, restarting my computer etc. but nothing has changed.
I found some other people with similar problems, and some suggestions were to use "sudo dpkg --configure -a", but then it just tells me that: "dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process"
I have tried restarting my computer without opening the software center, and retrying the command, but same story there.
Another suggestion was to go to update manager and reset it, but I can't even open it properly.
It says following: "It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first."
I have then tried the last command, but no luck.
Largely similar response as to the first command i tried.
I have then tried to uninstall dropbox, but as the software center will only do one process at a time, and it is currently stuck... well you guessed it.
Do any of you know how to force it to stop the nonsense and cancel that stupid process for good? :confused:
Thanks in advance.
Update:
The issue somehow solved it self over the night. I have no idea what happened, but there is no process running in the software center now.