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E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory

Asked by pradeepthomas

Binary package hint: yelp

E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

This is the recorded error.

Pradep Thomas

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #394979.

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pradeepthomas (pradeepthomas) said : 		#1
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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joey.blacksmith (joey-blacksmith) said : 		#3

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

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melissa (misslissa699631) said : 		#4

thanks that worked

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