Update Locks Package Handling

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:19:35 pm Billie Walsh did opine:

> An update a few weeks ago now has my system locked from doing any form
> of software install or update. I'm not sure how to explain this to well.
> 
> When I try to run synaptic I get a message that it can't access the data
> base because something else is already running. It tells me to run dpkge
> configure but that hangs after a couple seconds at configure grub and
> never finishes. I'm just about to the old Windows standby, Fdisk -
> Format - Install.
> 
> The system boots up and runs pretty much normal most of the time.
> Sometimes when it boots up the Nvidia drives won't load properly but if
> I boot it a couple times it generally will work
> 
> ANY ideas are gratefully accepted.
> 
> 10.04-64
> AMD quad core
> 4gigs

I believe the next thing I'd do was to let memtest86 simmer for half a day 
& see what falls out.

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