Public bug reported:
When I type "apt upgrade" in terminal, it showed, E: Could not open lock file
/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are
you root?
Please help,
Thank you
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.27 [origin: unknown]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-49.53-generic 5.4.65
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-49-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 7 11:04:43 2020
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2020-10-02T22:19:50.834355
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Incomplete
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade focal third-party-packages
** Summary changed:
- Hello, When I was in the process of installing the latest version of ubuntu
20.04.1 LTS , the process crashed. I restarted my system and then when I booted
Ubuntu, it went fine. I was also able to install all updates and upgrade, but
when I typed ''apt update" , it showed ''Reading package lists... Done E: Could
not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E:
Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ W: Problem unlinking the file
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied) W: Problem
unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13:
Permission denied)'' . How can I give permission to this directory?
+ Hello, When I was in the process of installing the latest version of ubuntu
20.04.1 LTS , the process crashed. I restarted my system and then when I booted
Ubuntu, it went fine. I was also able to install all updates and upgrades, but
when I typed ''apt update" , it showed ''Reading package lists... Done E: Could
not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E:
Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ W: Problem unlinking the file
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied) W: Problem
unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13:
Permission denied)'' . How can I give permission to this directory?
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Title:
Hello, When I was in the process of installing the latest version of
ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS , the process crashed. I restarted my system and
then when I booted Ubuntu, it went fine. I was also able to install
all updates and upgrades, but when I typed ''apt update" , it showed
''Reading package lists... Done E: Could not open lock file
/var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to
lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ W: Problem unlinking the file
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied) W:
Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin -
RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)'' . How can I give permission to
this directory?
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