Re: Rephrased - how to make the upgrader skip a step when it is hung without halting the entire process?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Brian.

ctrl-C had no effect at all.  So I shut the terminal down.  Then coudl
not restart a terminal so went into a virtual console and tried to do
# apt-get upgrade with the result:
E.  Could not lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock  - open (11: resource
temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is
another process using it?

Obviously the answer is yes - but what do I do now??

Lisi

On 30 June 2016 at 13:11, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 30 Jun 2016 at 12:58:24 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> I am rephrasing my question: - how do I make the upgrader skip a step
>> when it is hung, without halting the entire process?
>>
>> Sorry, I really dislike impatient questioners, but I am at a client's
>> hose and I am not keen to use ctrl-C because I don't know what else
>> still needs doing.  I just want to skip to the next step.
>
> Your reluctance is understandable but after a ctrl-C you should be able
> to recover with 'apt-get upgrade' without any ill effects.
>