debian question

[Frank Carmickle]

On Tue, Apr 15, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Of late I've been noticing lots of dpkg cannot get lock to directory 

looping?  I don't know what you mean.  Do you mean

   E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is
   another proc ess using it?




> looping errors.  One way to produce this is with aptitude install emacs 
> planner-el.  Probably many other emacs add-ons also produce this error as 
> well.  I first noticed this happen when I tried aptitude install emacs 
> bsdgames.  Emacs got on fine but bsdgames did not.  If I tried aptitude 
> install bsdgames emacs though, bsdgames gets on fine but blocks emacs.

The details of what packages probably doesn't matter.  What is the exact error?

--Frank