Re: Rephrased - how to make the upgrader skip a step when it is hung without halting the entire process?
We have lift-off of some kind! we have moved on. Now ot see how far
we have moved on. But am I g;lad to see the back of that!!!
Incidentally, it wouldn't killall -9, but happily "kill"ed. :-/
Yes, I now see that you said kill -9, not killall -9, but anyhow, kill
worked. \o/
On 30 June 2016 at 13:42, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 30 Jun 2016 at 13:27:56 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> Too late. :-( apt-get install cups gets the same error message as above now.
>>
>> On 30 June 2016 at 13:25, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> 'ps ax | grep dpkg'. Kill the process. You might need 'kill -9'.
>
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