broken apt-get: can't open lockfile

[Will Lowe <harpo@UDel.Edu>]

I've done two things in the last few days,  and one of them has broken
apt-get.  First,  I've moved to kernel 2.2.0-pre8 (I know 2.2.0 is out,
but I've not had time to download that huge bugger,  and I already had a
copy of -pre8).  I've also moved /usr off of one of my machines,  and it's
being shared (nfs) from another.

now running "apt-get install gnome-terminal" returns:
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/lock - open (37 No locks available)
E: Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt/ another process is using it

if I remove /var/cache/apt/lock and try again,  I get the same message,  
with a new (empty) /var/cache/apt/lock file.

                     					Will


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