How do I clear a lock so as to allow an upgrade

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 13 02:18:05 UTC 2022


On Sun, 2022-11-13 at 03:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Due to the zombie apt couldn't unlock the lock file/s anymore, hence
> checking with lsof should be redundant, but you never know.

Correction, dpkg probably couldn't remove the lock file, because it
likely does use apt as backend, but apt is a zombie.




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