Jeronimo Pellegrini, 2002-Oct-22 17:33 -0200: > Hi. > > As the subject says, I've tried aptitude as root (runs perfectly), > and with sudo. When I use sudo, I can't update the package database: > > sudo aptitude update > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... Done > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... Done > W: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object > > But I can use sudo dselect, sudo apt-get, etc, without problems. (And > /usr/bin/aptitude is close to /use/bin/apt-get in /etc/sudoers, both > should work the same) > > Could someone please try to reproduce this? Is there something I missed, > maybe?
I get something similar running $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade The update works fine, but the upgrade gets this: <snipped update stuff> Fetched 2287kB in 13s (172kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? However, sudo aptitude works perfectly. I haven't figured it out yet. Sorry I can't help yet, but I thought this info may help troubleshoot. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
