upgrade problems (again)

[banter25]

Third time something has flipped out when trying to install simple upgrades via the upgrade manager. I am running 8.10 Intrepid on a dual core AMD and this is the new error I'm getting.


E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory


So the question is, how do you unlock the download directory?:confused:

Thanks for any info you can give me on this.

[taurus]

There is something running in the background like adept or apt-get. Just for a few minutes. If not, see which one is it.


ps -A

[banter25]

Let it stop and now it's throwing out a new one.


E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic_2.6.27-7.16_amd64.deb: unable to make backup link of `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version

and this is what I get when I run ps -a

PID TTY TIME CMD
23655 pts/0 00:00:00 ps

[TeeRev]

Is there any solution to this second problem? It's the exact same as I am having, but when I enter ps -A I get:

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:00 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
6 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
7 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
8 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
9 ? 00:00:00 events/0
10 ? 00:00:00 events/1
11 ? 00:00:00 khelper
49 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd/0
50 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd/1
52 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
53 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
55 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
56 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
145 ? 00:00:00 cqueue
149 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
200 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
201 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
247 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
248 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
1274 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
1275 ? 00:00:00 khubd
1361 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
1374 ? 00:00:00 ata/1
1375 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
2046 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
2047 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
2061 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
2062 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
2300 ? 00:00:01 loop0
2318 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2462 ? 00:00:01 udevd
2825 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
3997 ? 00:00:01 loop1
3998 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
4274 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4275 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4280 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4282 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4283 tty6 00:00:00 getty
4471 ? 00:00:00 acpid
4515 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/0
4516 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/1
4599 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
4652 ? 00:00:00 dd
4654 ? 00:00:00 klogd
4677 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4699 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
4700 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
4735 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
4896 ? 00:00:00 hald
4899 ? 00:00:00 console-kit-dae
4900 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
4982 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
4995 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
5002 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
5043 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
5050 ? 00:00:00 btaddconn
5051 ? 00:00:00 btdelconn
5063 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
5105 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
5114 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
5118 ? 00:00:00 nm-system-setti
5143 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5146 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5149 tty7 00:01:49 Xorg
5167 ? 00:00:00 system-tools-ba
5204 ? 00:00:00 atd
5232 ? 00:00:00 cron
5312 tty1 00:00:00 getty
5404 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
5415 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manag
5503 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
5504 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5507 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio
5510 ? 00:00:00 gconf-helper
5512 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
5518 ? 00:00:00 seahorse-agent
5521 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd
5522 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
5527 ? 00:00:01 gnome-settings-
5528 ? 00:00:00 compiz
5538 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo
5601 ? 00:00:24 compiz.real
5605 ? 00:00:03 gnome-screensav
5610 ? 00:00:00 sh
5611 ? 00:00:00 compiz-decorato
5613 ? 00:00:05 gtk-window-deco
5614 ? 00:00:10 gnome-panel
5616 ? 00:00:02 nautilus
5618 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
5628 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-hal-volume
5630 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-gphoto2-vo
5632 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-trash
5637 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet
5647 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-burn
5666 ? 00:00:00 fast-user-switc
5669 ? 00:00:00 mixer_applet2
5680 ? 00:00:00 update-notifier
5681 ? 00:00:00 python
5682 ? 00:00:00 tracker-applet
5683 ? 00:00:00 evolution-alarm
5692 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet
5693 ? 00:00:00 trackerd
5694 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth-apple
5696 ? 00:00:00 gnome-power-man
5703 ? 00:00:01 notification-da
5813 ? 00:00:38 firefox
8596 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
8606 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
9374 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
9377 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
9378 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
9395 pts/0 00:00:00 ps


Any help? I had installed ubuntu 8.10 on this very machine a few weeks ago and it was all running fine, but I had a major virus issue with XP( which is on the same drive) so I formatted everything and started fresh. Everything has been going the same as the first install except for this update, not sure what the problem is.

Thanks in advance.

[taurus]

Is there any solution to this second problem? It's the exact same as I am having, but when I enter ps -A I get:

Any help? I had installed ubuntu 8.10 on this very machine a few weeks ago and it was all running fine, but I had a major virus issue with XP( which is on the same drive) so I formatted everything and started fresh. Everything has been going the same as the first install except for this update, not sure what the problem is.

Thanks in advance.

Try these.


sudo kill -9 5680
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[TeeRev]

Thanks for the quick reply. I've done what you said, but now I am getting this error during the upgrade:


Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic_2.6.27-7.16_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I've found some other forum posts about it just searching google, but no solutions.

[taurus]

Thanks for the quick reply. I've done what you said, but now I am getting this error during the upgrade:


Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic_2.6.27-7.16_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I've found some other forum posts about it just searching google, but no solutions.


sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[TeeRev]

Tried that, same result..

[Kevbert]

It looks like your /boot partition may be filled up. In terminal enter

cd /boot
ls -l
If you have any .bak files there remove them with

rm *.bak
Also if you have a number of old kernels (grub menu items) that you no longer use you can remove these via Synaptic (make a note of the kernel). Close terminal. Now go to Synaptic and search for linux-image and remove the linux-image...generic files that you don't want (be careful that you don't remove the one you are using). This will also remove the grub entries automatically. You should now be able to update with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[TeeRev]

I don't think it should be full, I partitioned off 10gb to install ubuntu on and clicking on file system from places I still have 1.9gb left. When I go to /boot directly it says there are 915 mb left, so it should still be enough right?

When I entered the ls -l command in /boot, I didn't see any .bak files either.

As for old kernel menus, I am not sure which ones I would want to delete here. Here is what comes up:

administrator@ubuntu:~$ cd /boot
administrator@ubuntu:/boot$ ls -l
total 25976
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 504280 2009-01-29 15:52 abi-2.6.27-11-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 503560 2008-10-24 08:55 abi-2.6.27-7-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85310 2009-01-29 15:52 config-2.6.27-11-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85316 2008-10-24 08:55 config-2.6.27-7-generic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 2009-02-08 03:01 grub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8927694 2009-02-06 16:42 initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8903579 2009-02-06 21:24 initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 124152 2008-09-11 21:11 memtest86+.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1354796 2009-01-29 15:52 System.map-2.6.27-11-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1352144 2008-10-24 08:55 System.map-2.6.27-7-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1131 2009-01-29 15:56 vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-11-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1130 2008-10-24 08:57 vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-7-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2344192 2009-01-29 15:52 vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2339712 2009-01-23 19:01 vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic

The update that I am trying to get is 2.6.27-7, so would I want to get rid of the -11 ones or the -7 ones or neither?

[TeeRev]

bump...(sorry if I shouldn't bump?) Just a bit annoyed with this.. Everytime I log on it tells me to update it and it still won't.

By looking at my last post, the 2.6.27-7 files are almost all older than the 2.6.27-11 ones. Does that mean those are the ones that should be removed before I can move forward? I don't want to go ahead and do anything on my own in case I screw it up. I have Ubuntu installed on this computer so I can work on my C and Java assignments at home instead of going into the lab to do them, and this update isn't causing me any big problems, just a minor annoyance I would like to fix if I can.