hi
Although no expert, I have been running a LAMP Ubuntu 10.04 server for about 2 years to host my GLPI IT database.
I usually update it about once a month via ssh without any trouble, but a few months ago it started refusing saying that it was unable to get exclusive lock. I hadn't bothered doing much about it because I had no real problems. Today I started to look at it thinking it had gone on long enough...
I am now stuck with "99% [1 Translation-en_GB bzip2 0B]" errors during the execution of sudo apt-get update.
This morning I have tried to examine sources.list and edit it, but that didn't help. I have also cleared the /var/lib/apt/lists/partial directory and renamed the lists folder as .old.
cd /var/lib/apt...i.e
sudo mv lists lists.old
sudo mkdir -p lists/partial
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
In addition, I tried to upgrade to 12.04 precise in the hope that it might resolve the issue, but that aborted half way through.
There are a lot of posts on this and similar issues, but my problem is that I don't really understand the update process well enough to pick the bones out of the problem and come up with a sensible diagnosis.
Your help much appreciated
KR's vasdjs
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