From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from xen.quitelikely.com ([209.9.237.160] helo=quitelikely.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JoK3L-00021u-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:05:03 -0400 Received: from carmickle.com (user-10bj5t2.cable.mindspring.com [64.185.151.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quitelikely.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C690440151 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:04:55 -0400 From: Frank Carmickle To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: debian question Message-ID: <20080422150455.GF14859@carmickle.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@carmickle.com, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:05:03 -0000 On Tue, Apr 15, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Of late I've been noticing lots of dpkg cannot get lock to directory looping? I don't know what you mean. Do you mean E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another proc ess using it? > looping errors. One way to produce this is with aptitude install emacs > planner-el. Probably many other emacs add-ons also produce this error as > well. I first noticed this happen when I tried aptitude install emacs > bsdgames. Emacs got on fine but bsdgames did not. If I tried aptitude > install bsdgames emacs though, bsdgames gets on fine but blocks emacs. The details of what packages probably doesn't matter. What is the exact error? --Frank