I was upgrading Kubuntu today, when it told me something went wrong and so I stopped it. Then, when I went back to restart Adept Manager, I got the message:
Another process using packaging system database |
I started looking around my running processes and attempting to kill whatever I thought might be causing the problem, but it wasn’t working. So, I followed my mantra: “When all else fails, reboot!” and did what no Linux person will ever admit doing. I rebooted the system.
To my chagrin, the error was still coming up, even after a Linux reboot. ;(
Then I learned of this command:
sudo dpkg --configure -a |
which causes things to continue where they left off in the upgrade and I was back in business! No GUI this time, but at least I could get my stuff back up and running properly.
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had the same problem, forgot about this command. thanks man, problem solved
Nice one M8! Have been sitting all night with this error, was about to format and reinstall when I kicked up Konqueror and found you post in google. Sorted now!
Thanks!
thank you so much, thank you beyond measure.
I am very new to linux and I had a question asking basically this on the ubuntu questions page for, well to the point they retired it since no one replied.
thank you, a thousand times thank you.
Thanx man, solves my problem!! If i could I would buy you a beer!!!
thanks for sharing almost formatted