interrupted do-release-upgrade

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 11 May 2018 at 01:02, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:


> Google results were varied, some sounded sketchy, a lot pretty old, so I
thought
> the best thing would be to ask here.  I am new to Ubuntu and this is my
first
> time doing a release upgrade.

You've seen

https://askubuntu.com/questions/657940/how-to-resume-the-interrupted-upgrade-from-14-10-to-15-04

...?

If you are *sure* dpkg isn't running -- check with

ps aux | grep dpkg

... then manually remove the ``lock'' file from /var/lib/dpkg and try again.

Also see:

https://administratosphere.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/rescuing-an-interrupted-ubuntu-upgrade/

&

http://www.openmutual.org/2012/02/recovering-from-power-loss-interrupted-ubuntu-distribution-upgrade/

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