Update Locks Package Handling

[Billie Walsh]

On 01/12/2011 01:48 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:27:08 +0800, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 01/11/2011 11:39 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:41:13 +0800, Billie Walsh 
>>> <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> An update a few weeks ago now has my system locked from doing any 
>>>> form of software install or update. I'm not sure how to explain 
>>>> this to well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can remove /var/cache/apt/archives/lock without any problem and 
>>> try to update/upgrade again.
>>>
>>
>> Didn't do any good. Still can't access anything to install or update.
>>
>
>
> Then it's not the apt cache lock but the dpkg lock.
> However, I'll be careful to do the recommended method per
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/15433/fixing-could-not-get-lock-var-lib-dpkg-lock 
>
>
> I'd rather try the following first .....
>
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> sudo apt-get -f install
>
>
> Regards, good luck - Goh Lip

When you do the first of those commands it hangs on the grub configure. 
Never finishes. I left it for a whole day and it just sat there.

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