how to unlock a a lock after a failed install (SOLVED)

[kevinorourke2008]

hi ibjsb4,
I tried what you suggested and there are both "aptd" and 2 x "dpkg" open when I try to kill them this is what happens.

Cannot kill process with pid 2665 with signal 9.
Operation not permitted.

[Bashing-om]

kevinorourke2008; Hi !

How about trying to get some more info on what is locking up "dpkg"
terminal codes:

sudo lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo apt-get check

just try'n to help

[JPKnowMad]

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/jpknowmad/gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
dpkg 2790 root 3uW REG 8,1 0 2883723 /var/lib/dpkg/lock



I'm having the same problem and thats what I got

[JPKnowMad]

I was in the middle of an upgrade from 12.04 when my comp shutdown. I downloaded the 12.10 iso and tried to burn it to USB but i'm getting errors with that too. I went into terminal to do sudo apt-get update and upgrade but it keeps getting hung on the stupid nautilus dropbox thing. It reaches 100% and then nothing happens after that. Software center isn't acting right either. I think if I can just get past this dropbox issue and finish the upgrade, I can get my USB creator to work and start with a clean install

[ibjsb4]

So originally this is a version upgrade from 12o4 to 12.10 that went bad? Thats too bad. I have tried in the past to help others with this type of problem and have not once succeeded. Perhaps someone else will come along with a fix, but as far as I am concern you must backup you personal files and do a fresh install.

Sorry for the bad news

[Bashing-om]

@JPKnowMad;
Try this;
rerun the lsof command again to make sure that the PID is the same;
then run this code:

 ps aux | grep <that PID> ##confirmation of the process
kill -9 <that PID>

for example only:

ps aux | grep 3322
kill -9 3322

Now can you do the updates ?

hope this helps

[kevinorourke2008]

SOLVED, I gave up and reinstalled the operating system. Everything works fine now.

[Bashing-om]

kevinorourke2008; Hey ,

That is one solution that always works !

all's well that ends well