kill all worked in circumventing the lock error, although the output of kill all was 'no process killed'....
~$ sudo killall apt apt-get aptitude [sudo] password for xyz: aptitude: no process killed ~$ And I thought that ubuntu was way less buggy than Fedora... -- Update Manager stops updating from repositories. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs