Re: E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Sarunas Burdulis <
sarunas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On 06/15/2011 09:00 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:07 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 15 June 2011 17:04, amritpal pathak <amritpalpathak1@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2: No such
file or
directory)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are
you
root?


What exact command are you running?

I don't think he sudo'd correctly. :) Ric

There is a chance that something else is using dpkg (in the
background?). Software center, auto updates, perhaps.

`ps -efH|less` will show them all.
output of this is:

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 2 0 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0]
root 4 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [migration/1]
root 7 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 8 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/1]
root 9 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [events/0]
root 10 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [events/1]
root 11 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [cpuset]
root 12 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [khelper]
root 13 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [netns]
root 14 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [async/mgr]
root 15 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [pm]
root 17 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [sync_supers]
root 18 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [bdi-default]
root 19 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kintegrityd/0]
root 20 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kintegrityd/1]
root 21 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root 22 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/1]
root 23 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid]
root 24 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 25 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kacpi_hotplug]
root 26 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ata/0]
root 27 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ata/1]
root 28 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ata_aux]
root 29 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 30 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [khubd]
root 31 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kseriod]
root 32 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [kmmcd]
root 35 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [khungtaskd]
root 36 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:01 [kswapd0]
root 37 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ksmd]
root 38 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [aio/0]
root 39 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [aio/1]
root 40 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [ecryptfs-kthrea]
root 41 2 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 [crypto/0]
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