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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo kill -9 12345 > > Password: <---Your user passwd > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 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" > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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