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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]