apt problems
I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt
on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system
gets as far as ;
Fetched 1500kB in 27s (55.4kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... 66%
and then hangs. This came on out of nowhere though possibly when I
upgraded my kernel with up2date[ Redhat's app].
ps -aux from a new terminal [ as the original terminal is hung], gives
me; root 2986 86.0 12.8 130872 115580 pts/0 R 06:46 7:44
apt-get update
# less /proc/2986/fd/ gives me;
total 0
dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jul 8 06:57 ./
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 8 06:57 ../
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 0 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 1 -> /dev/pts/0
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 2 -> /dev/pts/0
l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 3 -> /dev/null
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 4 ->
/var/state/apt/lists/lock
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 5 ->
/var/lib/rpm/Packages
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul 8 06:57 6 ->
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
# cat /proc/2986/status
Name: apt-get
State: R (running)
Tgid: 2986
Pid: 2986
PPid: 1221
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 0 0 0 0
Gid: 0 0 0 0
FDSize: 256
Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10
VmSize: 130872 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 115580 kB
VmData: 109700 kB
VmStk: 80 kB
VmExe: 108 kB
VmLib: 4744 kB
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
SigBlk: 0000000100000000
SigIgn: 8000000000000000
SigCgt: 000000008800500f
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
Can someone help me? When I try apt-get update from the new terminal I
get;
# apt-get update
E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource
temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
Thanks, Dirk
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