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Robbyx
October 15th, 2010, 10:43 PM
Could I please have some advice as to what to do.
The upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 stopped 5 mins from the end. It was at the point where the terminal said:
Starting disk temp monitoring daemon hddtemp:
I have my home directory on a different partition to the rest of the operating system.
I have not rebooted the system. I exited from the upgrade and was able to get into firefox to send this message.
Robbyx
October 15th, 2010, 10:57 PM
I tried a partial upgrade via the update manager. This is the error message:
Unable to get exclusive lock
This usually means that another package management application (like apt-get or aptitude) already running. Please close that application first.
These are the running processes from Htop. Which ones should I kill to release the lock
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Htop does not show apt-get or aptitude running. How do I clear the exclusive lock?
Robbyx
October 15th, 2010, 11:19 PM
I tried
sudo dpkg --configure -a
The response is Status database is locked by another process.
Robbyx
October 15th, 2010, 11:21 PM
I tried
sudo dpkg --configure -a
The response is
Status database is locked by another process.
Robbyx
October 16th, 2010, 03:39 AM
Could someone please comment on how to remove the exclusive lock.
I do not want to reboot until the upgrade is fully repaired.
Robbyx
October 16th, 2010, 10:39 AM
I would very much appreciate some help on my problem arising from the crashed upgrade. I need urgently to know how to release the lock so that I can repair the upgrade.
Could someone please respond.
Robbyx
October 16th, 2010, 03:45 PM
This solved it:
sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock
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