Noticed error while updating

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Debian Linux 13
Virtualmin version 8.1.0 Professiona

I saw these errors while installing updated

Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ...
fatal: cannot lock ref 'HEAD': Unable to create '/etc/.git/HEAD.lock': File exists.

Another git process seems to be running in this repository, e.g.
an editor opened by 'git commit'. Please make sure all processes
are terminated then try again. If it still fails, a git process
may have crashed in this repository earlier:
remove the file manually to continue.
warning: etckeeper failed to commit changes in /etc using git

Thanks
Keith
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Hello,

It looks more like a stale lock file. You can check whether a git process is actually running:

sudo lsof /etc/.git/HEAD.lock 2>/dev/null

If nothing is running, remove the lock and commit manually:

sudo rm /etc/.git/HEAD.lock
sudo etckeeper commit "manual commit after stale lock"
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I performed those commands how can I see it that corrected the issue

Thank
Keith

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If you ran sudo etckeeper commit "manual commit after stale lock" too and it returned no error, you’re fine.

You could run echo $? after running the last command to see whether it succeeded (i.e., returned 0).

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Ok it looks good, then
thanks for the prompt reply and assistance

Keith