I'm gonna close this, marking it as Invalid. Any program that does apt
work can have this 'failed to lock error', but there's no bug evident
here. These are temporary problems, from running two package tools at
once, or a process not exiting, or at worst a temporary file needing to
be removed.
It effects me as well with Ubuntu 9.04.
The Update Manager offers me [Partial Upgrade]. I click it, wait for the
downloading to finish, and get a screen that offers me to [Start Upgrade]. I
click it and immediately receive this error message.
I tried to run the Update-Manager as root but got
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = ferdyeka (momon-diie)
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Title:
Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = Confirmed
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I got this error during this (quite different though) scenario:
1. Applications = Ubuntu Software Center = ... Install some new app ...
2. At the same time (during download):
3. System = Administration = Hardware Drivers = ... Activate some new driver
...
4. This message is received.
Then:
5.
Closing as it seemed to be a temporary issue.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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Thanks for your bugreport.
This might be a temporary problem. Could you please check if it works if
you wait a bit longer? There may be some background downloading going on
for example.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
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Failed to lock
After I canceled download I restarted coputer so nothing should work in
background. I removed file from /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
directory and everything was ok. So I guess problem was in unfinished
package.
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