lock-unlock

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Bob Hemus <bob_hemus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Help fellas,
> I'm trying to add packages from synaptic package manager and apt-get and get the following errors.  You can see what I tried to do to fix it, but...
> bob at bob-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get update
> [sudo] password for bob:
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
> bob at bob-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo unlock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
> sudo: unlock: command not found
> bob at bob-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo open /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
> bob at bob-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get update
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
> bob at bob-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get open /var/lib/apt/lists/lock update lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
> E: Invalid operation open
> bob at bob-System-Product-Name:~$
> What have I done wrong and how do I fix it?

Is this Ubuntu or Debian?  Anyway, I'm guessing wildly that there is
some GUI package mgr running which might have a lock on
/var/lib/apt/lists/lock .  Perhaps something like synaptic ?  If you
shutdown whatever the GUI is, that might fix the problem.

> Been a while since I've needed your help.  Had bigger problems.  My wife, Florine, died of a cerebral hemorrhage last June 30th.  Ended up in the hospital with a nervous-breakdown.  My son&his son flew to Medford, OR picked up a rental van loaded it and we left Friday Sept. 17 after a dialysis treatment.  Arrived in Kilgore, TX, Monday Sept. 20 for my next scheduled dialysis.  I'm ready to go home now.
> Anyway, in advance, thanks for the help.
> Bob

Bob, I'm sorry to hear that the past year has been so challenging.  I
hope that the next year is much more favorable.


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