opkg: Could not obtain administrative lock (Om2008.8)

[Nathan Kinkade]

Installed the Om2008.8 images announced today and so far I'm very
impressed.  I think this is probably good enough for me to start using
the Freerunner as my daily mobile device.

However, I just ran into a small issue that I thought I'd post here in
case someone else runs across it.  To test the graphical installer
app, I launched it and installed something ... it worked nicely.  I
then went to a terminal to install something else but I was getting
this message:

root at om-gta02:~# opkg list
Collected errors:
 * Could not obtain administrative lock

I then found this thread: http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td680875

I expected my problem to be the same, but it wasn't:

root at om-gta02:~# fuser /usr/lib/opkg/lock
1872
root at om-gta02:~# ps up 1872
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      1872 11.7  2.4  16732  2976 ?        S<Lsl 19:25   9:07
/usr/bin/pulseaudio <sniped>

I have no idea what pulseaudio was doing with opkg ... maybe updating
itself or some component?  Anyway, maybe this will help someone else.

Nathan