Intrepid KDE 4.2 I am locked out of konsole and Adept. both say something is running, but isn't

[Norberto Bensa]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> There was no /apt in /var, however there was a /lock file, but it was empty.

you need to kill all the adept/apt related processes and then remove
the lock that's inside apt.

or you can restart yout computer and remove the file.