Too late. :-( apt-get install cups gets the same error message as above now.
On 30 June 2016 at 13:25, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Brian. > > ctrl-C had no effect at all. So I shut the terminal down. Then coudl > not restart a terminal so went into a virtual console and tried to do > # apt-get upgrade with the result: > E. Could not 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? > > Obviously the answer is yes - but what do I do now?? > > Lisi > > On 30 June 2016 at 13:11, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thu 30 Jun 2016 at 12:58:24 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >>> I am rephrasing my question: - how do I make the upgrader skip a step >>> when it is hung, without halting the entire process? >>> >>> Sorry, I really dislike impatient questioners, but I am at a client's >>> hose and I am not keen to use ctrl-C because I don't know what else >>> still needs doing. I just want to skip to the next step. >> >> Your reluctance is understandable but after a ctrl-C you should be able >> to recover with 'apt-get upgrade' without any ill effects. >>
