I tried doing
sudo apt update
but got:
Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
I am trying to get the latest version of mongod. Following some instructions I found, I did:
$ ps aux | grep apt
5019 0.0 0.0 14224 980 pts/0 S+ 02:52 0:00 grep --color=auto apt
But I don't know which part of this I should plug into
kill -9 processnumber <id>
to make it work.
Which part is the ID and is there any way to prevent this from happening again?
Best Answer
If you want to kill processes based on their name or argument list, use
pkill
.Will kill all processes whose name matches the
regexp
extended regular expression.Will kill all processes whose list of arguments (including the first which usually contains the command name) concatenated with spaces matches the regexp.
Here however, it looks more like you want to kill the process(es) that holds the
/var/lib/apt/lists/lock
lock file, so:(with some fuser implementations) or
may be more appropriate.
Though you may want to check what process it is first with
lsof /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
orfuser /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
. And exit it normally if possible instead of coldly kill it.In any case, avoid
kill -9
which doesn't let a chance to the process to exit cleanly.