[Tfug] ooops

[Ray Reeves]

I checked the syntax of the command and it appears to be correct, no quotes were used. I just tried the installer again and it is telling me to check to see if synaptic, apt or update manager is running. I see no apparent operation of these programs going on. They are being seen as running by the system. I checked in the system monitor to see if they showed up in the process section, nothing. How do I kill them if they are indeed there? 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gruenenfelder" <johng at as.arizona.edu> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 5:26:19 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] ooops 

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:41:44PM +0000, Ray Reeves wrote: 
>During the install of virtualbox the installer locked up. Now the system update, synaptic etc. gives me the following error message. 
> 
>E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
>E: _cache->open() failed, please report. 
> 
>I tried the sudo command above only to have the cursor go to ">" and stall. 
> 
>Synaptic does not work, I was going to try to repair broken packages. 
> 
>Ideas would be appreciated. 

The cursor you see is the continuation cursor that the shell provides so that 
you can type multiline statements (such as a for loop). Most often, though, 
people get it because they accidentally typed some mismatched quotes in their 
command. 

In this case, the command you should be running contains no quotes. Did you 
accidentally include one, perhaps while doing a copy-paste with the mouse? 

Also, make sure neither synaptic nor another packaging tool is running when 
you invoke the dpkg command. 


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