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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html