10.10 Upgrade freeze

[Robbyx]

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]

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]

I tried


sudo dpkg --configure -a

The response is Status database is locked by another process.

[Robbyx]

I tried


sudo dpkg --configure -a

The response is


Status database is locked by another process.

[Robbyx]

Could someone please comment on how to remove the exclusive lock.
I do not want to reboot until the upgrade is fully repaired.

[Robbyx]

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]

This solved it:

sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock