can't install update and upgrade

Bug #188995 reported by Oscar M. Olaguera

This bug report was converted into a question: question #23890: can't install update and upgrade.

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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
dpkg (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Ralph Janke

Bug Description

dpkg was interrupted you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to solve the problem (can't install update)
E: cache > failed please report
Unable to get exclusive lock (can't upgrade)

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Oscar M. Olaguera (osmacol-1527-hotmail) wrote :

Please do something about this problem ASAP

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote :

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 and subsequently 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 .

Changed in dpkg:
assignee: nobody → txwikinger
status: New → Invalid
status: Invalid → New
status: New → Invalid
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