Update Locks Package Handling

[Billie Walsh]

On 01/19/2011 10:57 AM, Tom Bell wrote:
> On 1/19/2011 9:28 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 01/12/2011 07:45 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>> On 01/12/2011 04:56 PM, Clay Weber wrote:
>>>> there is more than one place for a lock file, if you run
>>>> sudo apt-get update or
>>>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>>> if there is a so-called stale lock file the error message will give 
>>>> the proper
>>>> filename and path.
>>>>
>>>> clay
>>>>
>>>
>>> Running sudo apt-get update goes through a bunch of reading packages 
>>> then comes up with this:
>>>
>>> "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg 
>>> --configure -a' to correct the problem."
>>>
>>> So you run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" and it does some stuff then 
>>> hangs on grub config. Sits there for hours or until you finally kill 
>>> it or shut off the computer. That's how the system got stuffed in 
>>> the first place.
>>>
>>
>> Still trying to figure out what's going on.
>>
>> Is there a command that tells you what process is running in the 
>> background?
>>
>> How do you kill a process running in the background?
>>
>> I'm sure it's been posted a bunch of times but I've never needed to 
>> know till now. And, I have no idea what to search for in the archive.
>>
>> The reason I ask is because doing a "kdesudo dolphin" command to 
>> bring up Dolphin in admin mode and removing either apt/lock or 
>> dpkg/lock does no good because they just pop right back. This makes 
>> me wonder if dpkg is still running but never completing it's 
>> business, so to speak. When  you try to remove the lock it reinstates 
>> it immediately.
>>
>> I tried the "dpkg --configure -a" command again and just left it sit 
>> for about twenty-four hours and it was still hung on grub configure. 
>> I'm beginning to think there is something wrong with some part of 
>> grub install that dpkg can't resolve.
>>
> ps -A
> at the command prompt will list all processes running.
> Then you can use:
> kill -15 "process number"
> to stop the offending process from running.  Remember that "process 
> number"
> is a number without the quote marks and it will be listed beside the
> offending process when you run "ps".
> Good luck!
>
> Tom
>

Thank you. I didn't see anything that didn't look like it should be 
running. I'm far from any sort of expert but I didn't see anything like 
a package handler running. Well, it was an idea.

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