Bug#290480: aptitude: "Could not lock cache file" -- ?

2005-01-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Friday 14 January 2005 03:07 am, dh wrote: > I don't know how to unlock the cache file. It would be useful if > the message included some information on how to fix the problem. The problem is likely that you need to run dpkg --configure -a. Daniel -- /--- Daniel Burrows <

Bug#290480: aptitude: "Could not lock cache file" -- ?

2005-01-14 Thread dh
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.8-1 Severity: normal After an aptitude was aborted due some mishap, I couldn't properly restart aptitude. I got the error message: W: Warning: Could not lock cache file. Opening in read-only mode I don't know how to unlock the cache file. It would be useful if