Edgy Apt misbehaving

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 09:43, Ted Quick wrote:

> So how to I find what application is running, since this comes up after a
> reboot, and never goes away? I am not aware of ANY applications that are
> running at that point, but Edgy thinks there's 1 going......
>

Try this in a console:

ps -AF| egrep '(apt|adept)'

If it shows anything likely, then you can try to kill the offending process.  
Note that this may match things that don't affect Apt, so kill with care.

Here is what I get on a Dapper desktop:

:~$ ps -AF| egrep '(apt|adept)'
kitterma  5525     1  0  7580  9312   1 Sep28 ?        00:00:36 adept_notifier
kitterma  5718     1  0 22494 31308   0 Sep28 ?        00:22:45 
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If you got that, then I'd sudo kill 5525 as the offending process.  That 
approach has worked for me in the past.  YMMV.

Scott K