[PlanetCCRMA] apt can't get lock
Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Jun 4 19:28:01 2003
> > I had to uninstall the old ones first with rpm -e and I copied the
> > sources.list for rh9. Now I'm trying to do "apt-get planetccrma-core"
> > and apt warns me that it "could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
> > - open (11 resource temporarily unavailable.)" It downloads everything,
> > but then it freezes in the middle of actually installing.
>
> I have not seen this before. It looks like some other process has the
> lock taken. Make sure you do not have an errant apt-get or rpm process
> still running in the machine ("ps -axuw|grep apt-get").
I'm assuming that you did an "apt-get update"...
-- Fernando