I am not sure. Have never seen this before. But when a new app manager can't get a lock it normaly means that an app manager i running. In this case maybe in the backgorund. Maybe it did not close down.

If you open the Xterminal and write (you need rootsh installed):
1. sudo gainroot
2. pkill hildon-application-manager

You will close the app manager if it is runing in the background.

You could also try apt-get:
1. sudo gainroot
2. apt-get update
3. apt-get install <program you like to install>

or reinstall app manager:
4. apt-get install --reinstall hildon-application-manager

i tried the pkill hildon-application-manager, but nothing seems to be happening

That is supposed to happen. You did not get an error and the command executed successfully.

Now you could try to start the app manager also in Xterminal.

1. hildon-application-manager

Maybe it will show you an error.

the same problems that I posted in the first post are still there...

checked the log:

hildon-application-manager 2.2.65
apt-worker exited
apt-worker: too weak to get lock from 1615.
read: Bad file descriptor

Did you try run it from the Xterminal? Did you get any output there? Did you try apt-get?

I tried apt-get install --reinstall hildon-application-manager



but it doesnt seem to be working

You need to close the app manager to be able to use "apt-get".

it was already closed, thats why i dont understand why it says that another process is using it...

Probably cause it has not closed properly. Some process is running in the background.

Try in Xterminal
1. sudo gainroot
2. killall hildon-application-manager

If this don't work.. could you do a screendump while using Top in Xterminal?

1. top
2. q (to close top)

I tried killall hildon-application-manager, but it says that no process was killed, I then tried apt-get install --reinstall hildon-application-manager however it says that another process is using it

I also tried top, q then opened app manager again but nothing seems to have changed