locked on dist-upgrade to kde 3.5.1

Rory in Toronto · 02-04-2006, 12:03 AM

Just tried to upgrade from 3.5 to 3.5.1. Everything went smoothly until a message in terminal said that a script had changed and gave me the option of upgrading to the new one, keeping the old one or comparing them by selecting 'D'.

So, I selected 'D'. I saw the comparison and decided I wanted to upgrade to the new one. But I was locked in the comparison of the script with (END) at the bottom.

Eventually, I stupidly closed terminal and re-opened. The next time I did apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, I got the following:

Code:

rory@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 
Done Calculating upgrade... 
Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 
25 not fully installed or removed. 
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - 
open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) 
E: Unable to lock the download directory 
rory@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 25 not fully installed or removed. E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory rory@ubuntu:~$

Can anyone help? Getting caught between upgrades certainly not ideal.

heema · 02-04-2006, 04:23 AM

try doing

sudo apt-get -f install

HappyTux · 02-04-2006, 08:51 AM

Try fuser /var/cache/apt/archives/lock to see which process still has a hold of the lock file then kill process_number to kill it off if necessary you may need to use -9 in the kill line if a normal kill will not work.

Rory in Toronto · 02-04-2006, 10:39 AM

Thank you for your help!

HappyTux · 02-04-2006, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rory in Toronto

Thank you for your help!

I take it was my suggestion that worked if so you should post that info so people searching in the future will find a solution in the thread nothing worse than searching and finding just a I fixed it with nothing indicating how it was done it this case it would be fairly simple to figure out but other times it is not.