ubuntu - palimpsest not opening the disk management

08
2014-07
  • raaz

    I am using Ubuntu. I found from web search that to open Disk management below command is needed:

    sudo palimpsest

    But when I am trying it in the terminal and result was : command not found.

    I also tried gksudo and gksu commands but nothing happens, help me to solve it . Thank you.

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    • Answers
  • grawity

    The program has been renamed to gnome-disks in GNOME 3.6.

    Execute this command:

    apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

    If you get the result "gnome-disk-utility is already the newest version", then run:

    gnome-disks
  • Sekhemty

    It seems that it is not installed. Try to install the gnome-disk-utility package and see if it works.


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  • Questioner

    could someone help me to find a solution for this problem,

    when i start running synaptic package manager it gives me the following error:

    E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct
 the problem. 
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

    command sudo dpkg --configure -a is tested on terminal as well. it gives following output:

    root@kapia-laptop:/home/kapia# sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

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  • knittl

    that means you have already an process of dpkg running, either as synaptic, update manager or apt-get/aptitude

    as a last resort, if nothing works you can try deleting the lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, but be careful, this can potentially corrupt your package database

  • John T

    If it's an option, I'd just reboot. Let Linux do it's thing and close the programs properly for you. Either reboot through the graphical interface, or open terminal and run sudo reboot or sudo shutdown -r now. Upon rebooting, run sudo dpkg --configure -a. If you are still getting errors regarding dpkg being locked, follow knittl's answer.

  • yhw42

    When you running sudo dpkg --configure -a be sure, you have closed synaptic package manager, autoupdate dialog and all other software related to packages. Only one instance at time can work with packages database.