Edgy Apt misbehaving

[Ted Quick]

--- Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 09:43, Ted Quick wrote:
> 
> > So how to I find what application is running, since this comes up after a
> > reboot, and never goes away? I am not aware of ANY applications that are
> > running at that point, but Edgy thinks there's 1 going......
> >
> 
> Try this in a console:
> ps -AF| egrep '(apt|adept)'
> If it shows anything likely, then you can try to kill the offending process.  
> Note that this may match things that don't affect Apt, so kill with care.
> Here is what I get on a Dapper desktop:
> 
> :~$ ps -AF| egrep '(apt|adept)'
> kitterma  5525     1  0  7580  9312   1 Sep28 ?        00:00:36 adept_notifier
> kitterma  5718     1  0 22494 31308   0 Sep28 ?        00:22:45 
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> If you got that, then I'd sudo kill 5525 as the offending process.  That 
> approach has worked for me in the past.  YMMV.
> 
> Scott K

Thanks for the method. When I tried it it didn't remove 1 process, as follows:

1000      4684  4657  0   701   756   0 12:22 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -E (apt|adept)

That's the only thing left open.

When I tried taking that out it just came back with the same thing at a slightly higher number.


Ted Quick
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