Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Stephen Fahey
I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an error message, which I didn't write down. I now cannot open Update manager or

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Bob Smither
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an error message,

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Robin Putters
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, access to Root Terminal does not get a response. Running :~$ apt-get check in Terminal returns

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Stephen Fahey
Robin Putters wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, access to Root Terminal does not get a response. Running :~$

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 08 July 2006 09:20, Stephen Fahey wrote: 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? You cannot run two simulataneous processes both of which will upgrade packages on

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:53:31PM +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: Robin Putters wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, access to

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Hans van Middendorp
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:20:57 +0100 Stephen Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an