On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:44:56AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I was following the instructions on > https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/en/upgrade-to-beowulf > and got to the point of doing apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Partway through, it decided, a usual, that it had to stop and restart > several services: > postgresql lprng exim4 cron atd_______________________________ > (the entry box had a lot of underscores in it; I suspect just filler?) > > I OK'd it. > > Next thing on the screen was: > > Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade" > postgresql: restarting...FAILED! (1) > lprng: restarting...done. > exim: restarting...done. > cron: restarting...done. > atd...done. > > and then it froze for five hours.
(I wasn't worried about postgresql failing; as far as I know, I don't use it.) > > After waiting five hours, I tried aborting the upgrade (it had evidently > failed by this point), first with control-C which did not work, then > with killall apt-get from a separate xterm. > Yes, this killed the upgrade. > > I tried again with apt-get dist-upgrade > This time it just told me > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - (11: resource temporarily > unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg), os > another process using it? > > I'm not sure how to proceed from here. > Is it safe to somehow break the lock? If so, how? > Does something have to be done to restore the adnimistration directory > to a safe state? > Is it OK to reboot (this would be in the middle of an upgrade, and the > system might not be consistent enough to run successfully) > > In case all else fails and I have to reinstall from scratch, I'd prefer > to install chimaera directly instead of going the ascii -> beowulf -> > chimaera route. Are there (draft) intructions for that? > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
