[Eug-lug] unbuntu and admin

[Jimmy Hendrix]

Sometimes when yum (like apt-get for Fedora) has crashes it leaves behind a
file named yum.pid in /var/lock that needs to be deleted before it will run
again.  Might be worth a look in /var/lock to see if there is anything like
that for apt-get.

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Alan Crandall <alanore at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:26 -0700, Alan wrote:
> > On Mon, March 10, 2008 12:23 pm, Alan Crandall wrote:
> > > hello I am between jobs so have time to work on my Ubuntu install on
> my
> > > tower and running into problem upgrading to 7.1  It tells another task
> > > in running-apt-get-and to kill it but not sure how. I type in a
> console
> > > kill apt-get but that does not work. If I want to just upgrade
> programs
> > > I already have installed I get  run dpkg --configure -a which I have
> > > tried several time by typing su and then my password which it does not
> > > take ?
> >
> > You want "sudo" as in:
> > you at system$ sudo kill -9 12345
> > Password: <---Your user passwd
> > you at system$
> >
> thanks for the reply but that did not seems to work as when I tried to
> upgrade to 7.10 I got "unable to get exclusive lock-This means that
> another package management application (like apt-get or aptitude) is
> already running.Please close that task first"
>
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