Edgy Apt misbehaving

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 12:25, Ted Quick wrote:
> --- Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Thanks for the method. When I tried it it didn't remove 1 process, as
> follows:
>
> 1000      4684  4657  0   701   756   0 12:22 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -E
> (apt|adept)
>
> That's the only thing left open.
>
> When I tried taking that out it just came back with the same thing at a
> slightly higher number.

Yes.  That's the process for the grep search you are running.  That's one of 
the "this may match things that don't affect Apt" that I mentioned.

After you killed everything else were you able to run Adept?

Scott K