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Re: [LUG] Java Runtime Environment

 

On Friday 10 November 2006 23:44, Neil Winchurst wrote:
>
> Yes, that is exactly what has happened. I have been looking through the
> processes with ps -ef and I found out that one called whiptail (what a
> name) was all about the Sun agreement. So I killed that one and all
> which referred to Adept. Now Adept will run but in read only mode.
>
> I get the message 'Database locked - Adept Manager. Please close the
> other application before using this one.'
>
> Well I can't find any relevant process now and I don't know how to sort
> out the package database. Can anyone help please?
>
> Neil Winchurst

sudo dpkg --configure -a
will fix the database.
It is something worth keeping a note of - it often gets things running again 
when adept (or apt-get etc ) fall over for some reason.

Mark

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