Comments on: How to fix lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) Error

By: fr33mat3

fr33mat3 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:28:46 +0000

@Rakhunathan,
It worked great thanks mate

By: srikanth

srikanth — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:21:20 +0000

rakhunathan man u helped me save my day.
thanks

By: Arya

Arya — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:56:36 +0000

thnx rakhunathan

By: suren

suren — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:03:43 +0000

from the terminal identify the process number with ps -e | grep apt
then kill the process with
kill -9 ####

By: Norah

Norah — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:34:42 +0000

ps -e | grep apt identified the process number

Followed by:
sudo kill #### did not kill the process

lsof | grep /var/lib/dpkg/lock did not return any results

However, log off/on did.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Sun, 08 May 2011 00:51:40 +0000

Thanks Rakhunathan

By: Rakhunathan

Rakhunathan — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:49:16 +0000

Hey friends,
just type
sudo bash (or) sudo -s
This makes you the root user and obtain administrator previlages. type “whoami” and check that you will be the root user…now all apt commands work..
…cheers..rakhu…

By: missnaem

missnaem — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:59:02 +0000

thanks Eruaran
it works for me

By: mehul

mehul — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:12:57 +0000

Hey , Nothing working for me. I am newb and might be screwing it up. Copied and pasted several of the above options to Konsole and tried them…but none of this worked also when i tried from synaptic package manager ..it didnt work !!!,please guide what to do ?

By: jack frost

jack frost — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:34:40 +0000

Nothing working for me. I am newb and might be screwing it up. Copied and pasted several of the above options to Konsole and tried them ….nothing removing “lock”. Permissions?

no problem I am root, what do I do?

By: Kok

Kok — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:13:30 +0000

Thanks Eruaran. That worked for me.

By: mohsen

mohsen — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:34:55 +0000

thanks a looot
:-*

it works great …
I kill any process which contains apt !!!
but it works fine

By: Eruaran

Eruaran — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:27:10 +0000

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

By: nara

nara — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:18:56 +0000

thanx

By: steve

steve — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:05:20 +0000

All processes in linux create lock files that tell another process that it is running or in use. This is so that two programs do no write to a file at the same time and cause each other problems.

One way to force close the process if you can not do it properly is

lsof | grep /var/lib/dpkg/lock

returns something like.
xx number xx xx xx xx xx xx xx /var/lib/dpkg/lock

type kill -9 number (this will kill the process id from above)

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lsof justs lists all open files on your system, and you can use a command like grep to search for the file that is suspect which can be killed if necessary

By: kuldeep singh

kuldeep singh — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:26:43 +0000

how can i unlock the var/libs/dpkg/lock file…..plz some buddy short me out

By: jay

jay — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:55:04 +0000

kein i dont get it o.o… like what do i uncheck im like new to ubuntu

By: Onkar Raut

Onkar Raut — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:12:54 +0000

ps -e | grep apt (might show you a number which is essentially a job number. My system was locked due to apt-get and showed me apt-get as job number 1594)

sudo kill 1594 (modify number to your current run)

This works perfect without having to delete the lock and causing unnecessary changes to your system

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:20:36 +0000

Hi I have a very big prob, my iphone was and still is stuck in safe mode because of fake fermware i could not remove, so i went to var,lib apt,list and deleted all except partial, that didnt work so i went to var,lib,dpkg, and deleted the updates and mistakely the files down below update, now my computer will not recognise my iphone plus there is nothing in cydia under manage except the headlines no packages it says no such files as var,lib dpkg, please help.

By: Kein

Kein — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:53:10 +0000

I found out the problem.
When you run sudo apt-get update
you may find some lines saying “Failed to fetch http://…”
This is the reason of lock.
Check your software sources and uncheck unfetched links from active, reload it and Woula