[olug] Ubuntu update related problem -- split (Take 3)

[Trent Melcher]

Make sure you look for hidden lock files also.  Good example is the lock
file that X creates while its running (/tmp/.X0-lock)

Trent

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Joe Gulizia
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:26 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group; wftl-lug at salmar.com
> Subject: [olug] Ubuntu update related problem -- split (Take 3)
> 
> Without synaptic running to my knowledge....
> 
> I have
> 
> joe at xxxxxxx:~$ sudo find / -name 'lock' -print 
> /home/joe/.mozilla/firefox/mnjh9z8y.Joe/lock
> /media/hdb2/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/lock (Hard Drive B) 
> /media/hdb2/tmp/gconfd-nate/lock (Hard Drive B) 
> /media/hdb2/tmp/gconfd-root/lock (Hard Drive B) 
> /media/hdb2/var/lock (Hard Drive B) 
> /media/hdb2/home/joe/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock (Hard Drive B) 
> /media/hdb2/home/joe/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lock (Hard Drive 
> B) /media/hdb2/home/son/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock (Hard Drive 
> B) /media/hdb2/home/son/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lock (Hard 
> Drive B) /media/hdb2/root/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock (Hard Drive
> B)
> /media/sda2/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/lock (Portable drive) 
> /media/sda2/var/lock (Portable drive)
> 
> /root/.synaptic/lock
> /tmp/gconfd-joe/lock
> /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
> /var/lib/dpkg/lock
> /var/lib/aptitude/lock
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
> /var/lock
> /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock
> 
> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for
> /proc/11297: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver.  
> Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.  Earlier 
> results may have failed to include directories that should 
> have been searched.
> 
> On an earlier reboot after using SUSE -- I got a HAL 
> (Hardware Abstration Layer?) error too BUT NOT on this login.
> 
> Thanks for the continuing help
> 
> --- "Matthew" <m at xxxxxx.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:46 -0600, Daniel L.
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > If you continue to have this problem and can't
> > track down what app is
> > > causing it, you can always add a "rm -f 
> /var/state/apt/lists/lock" 
> > > to a startup script
> > yourself.
> > 
> > On my Ubuntu Breezy box in a new X session, with Synaptic running, I
> > find:
> > 
> > m at bh:$ sudo find / -name 'lock' -print /var/lib/apt/lists/lock 
> > /var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/aptitude/lock 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lock 
> > /var/lock /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock /root/.synaptic/lock 
> > /tmp/gconfd-matt/lock
> > 
> > 
> > ...but we expect every distro to put the lock files in a different 
> > place, eh?  :)
> > 
> > --
> > -------^.^--
> 
> 
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