Unable to kill dpkg process on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Server

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi,

I have the below process running on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.3 and i am not
able to get rid of these process using kill -9 26981 and kill -9 7550

Please suggest

Regards

Kaushal

root at hostdev:~# fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock ; dpkg --configure -a
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/var/lib/dpkg/lock:  root      26981 F.... dpkg
Kill process 26981 ? (y/N) y
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
root at hostdev:~# ps -ef | grep dpkg
root      7550     1  0 Nov16 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/dpkg
--status-fd 16 --unpack --auto-deconfigure
/var/cache/apt/archives/echoping_6.0.2-3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/fping_2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/wwwconfig-common_0.2.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/javascript-common_7_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libconfig-grammar-perl_1.10-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdigest-sha1-perl_2.12-1build1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdigest-hmac-perl_1.01-7_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsocket6-perl_0.23-1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libio-socket-inet6-perl_2.54-1.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libjs-prototype_1.6.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libjs-scriptaculous_1.8.3-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libjs-cropper_1.2.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/speedy-cgi-perl_2.22-11_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/librrds-perl_1.3.8-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsnmp-session-perl_1.13-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/smokeping_2.3.6-5_all.deb
root      9077 22512  0 16:06 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto dpkg
root     26981     1  0 04:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dpkg
--status-fd 17 --unpack --auto-deconfigure
/var/cache/apt/archives/echoping_6.0.2-3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/fping_2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/wwwconfig-common_0.2.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/javascript-common_7_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libconfig-grammar-perl_1.10-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdigest-sha1-perl_2.12-1build1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdigest-hmac-perl_1.01-7_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsocket6-perl_0.23-1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libio-socket-inet6-perl_2.54-1.1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libjs-prototype_1.6.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libjs-scriptaculous_1.8.3-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libjs-cropper_1.2.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/speedy-cgi-perl_2.22-11_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/librrds-perl_1.3.8-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsnmp-session-perl_1.13-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/smokeping_2.3.6-5_all.deb
root at hostdev:~#