[SOLVED] Having some package error issue.

[ian-weisser]

The error is that a lockfile is present.
Look for it in /var/lock. If there, rm the lockfile...if you are really, really, really sure that dpkg isn't running.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1495612 for a similar situation a few years ago.

[Bashing-om]

shahzaibmuneeb; K;

Let's go with your thought - even though there is no other instance of it raising it's head - :

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

to make sure phpmyadmin is not an issue.

Why can I not remain with kernel 49 without this error?

because: if the package manager is not happy, nobody is happy

maybe a step forward

[Bashing-om]

shahzaibmuneeb; Hey ...

Still with us ?
Ian's directive is apt:

sysop@1404mini:~$ ls -al /var/lock
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 19  2013 /var/lock -> /run/lock
sysop@1404mini:~$ ls -al /run/lock
total 0
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root  40 Feb 23 11:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 540 Feb 23 11:37 ..
sysop@1404mini:~$

and as well that of runrickus, when we know what the lock condition is .

together we can

[QDR06VV9]

***This is just informational***
ian-weisser gives very wise advice with being very sure that dpkg is not running!!
Never being one to tell someone to run commands blindly>>>
Here is what Bashing-om's output returns for me on fresh install of Xenial(16.04), Plus running my first post command..

[me@me-Lenovo-B570 ~]$ ls -al /var/lock
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 23 12:22 /var/lock -> /run/lock
[me@me-Lenovo-B570 ~]$ ls -al /run/lock
total 4
drwxrwxrwt  4 root     root     100 Feb 23 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 root     root     880 Feb 23 19:34 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      22 Feb 23 16:09 asound.state.lock
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root      40 Feb 23 16:09 subsys
drwxr-xr-x  2 whoopsie whoopsie  60 Feb 23 16:09 whoopsie
[me@me-Lenovo-B570 ~]$ sudo \rm -v /var/cache/debconf/*.dat
[sudo] password for me: 
removed '/var/cache/debconf/config.dat'
removed '/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat'
removed '/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat'
[me@me-Lenovo-B570 ~]$ ls -al /run/lock
total 4
drwxrwxrwt  4 root     root     100 Feb 23 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 root     root     880 Feb 23 19:34 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      22 Feb 23 16:09 asound.state.lock
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root      40 Feb 23 16:09 subsys
drwxr-xr-x  2 whoopsie whoopsie  60 Feb 23 16:09 whoopsie
[me@me-Lenovo-B570 ~]$

.
It would be good advice to reboot after for a clean session.

[shahzaibmuneeb]

I have ran these commands:

Should I run runrickus's command?

shahzaib@thinkpad:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpymyadmin
[sudo] password for shahzaib: 
dpkg-query: package 'phpymyadmin' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: phpymyadmin is not installed.

shahzaib@thinkpad:~$ ls -al /var/lock
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 28 19:32 /var/lock -> /run/lock
shahzaib@thinkpad:~$ ls -al /run/lock
total 0
drwxrwxrwt  4 root     root       80 Feb 24 07:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 31 root     root     1080 Feb 24 07:35 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data root       40 Feb 24 07:34 apache2
drwxr-xr-x  2 whoopsie whoopsie   60 Feb 24 07:34 whoopsie
shahzaib@thinkpad:~$ ^C
shahzaib@thinkpad:~$

[shahzaibmuneeb]

Okay! Woo! I follow Ian's link (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1495612) and that helped cancel my partway phpmyadmin installation. Then after that I ran

sudo apt-get -f install

and that seemed to fix it.

Thank you guys

[Bashing-om]

shahzaibmuneeb;

Outstanding work .

I say again

ain't 'buntu wonderful

together we can