Updates failing

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Hi

When updating using the module updater I am receiving the following and all updates are failing:

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtual-server …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

All packages have the same errors.

John

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-awstats …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-awstats …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-dav …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-dav …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-htpasswd …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-htpasswd …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-init …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-init …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-mailman …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-mailman …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-slavedns …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-slavedns …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

Now updating webmin-virtualmin-svn …

Installing package(s) with command apt-get -y install webmin-virtualmin-svn …

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

… install failed!

No packages were installed. Check the messages above for the cause of the error.

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It sounds like some process is locking that database… what is the output of these two commands:

ps auxw | grep apt ps auxw | grep dpkg
3

Hi, here are the results of the request

John

linux@jmb-webserver:~$ ps auxw | grep apt
linux 18027 0.0 0.0 3328 816 pts/0 S+ 06:49 0:00 grep --color=auto apt
linux@jmb-webserver:~$ ps auxw | grep dpkg
linux 18051 0.0 0.0 3328 816 pts/0 S+ 06:49 0:00 grep --color=auto dpkg
linux@jmb-webserver:~$

4

Okay, what about just deleting the lockfile:

rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

After running that command, are you able to perform your updates?

-Eric

5

Hi,

Yes! The updates have completed - thank you very much!

6

Hi,

Yes! The updates have completed - thank you very much!

7

Hello,

I am having a similar issue.
I tried using webmin ‘File Manager’ to delete the file but I am getting this:

Following errors occured while performing operation
lock-frontend - unable to delete: No such file or directory

Which is strange since I can select the file using the ‘File Manager’ so it exists for sure.

Is there a way (virtualmin/webmin) to remove that file without having to login to the linux console to do it?

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Note that I am not running anything special so I have no idea why the file is locked in the first place.

I also tried editing the file and adding a ‘1’ in it and I could save the file using ‘File Manager’.

So does it make sense that ‘File Manager’ can open/edit/save a file but cannot delete it?