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Having trouble with software center. it says Canceling but does nothing.

I get

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I tried a hard reboot and the problem still exists. Thanks for your help

guntbert
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Jess W Farnsworth
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You can try

sudo killall apt-get

if this doesn't work, try to manually remove the lock:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
Hakeem Wahab
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  • E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ still locked by another process. How can I find that process and kill it? jess@jess-OptiPlex-GX260:~$ rrrggg. its gonna get a wipe if it does not beave – Jess W Farnsworth Oct 28 '13 at 18:55
  • I still am having issues with this, and software center, despite removing the cache, is still hung up says searching. Anyone with any ideas? Running out of paticence. – Jess W Farnsworth Oct 29 '13 at 05:08
  • so try those commands: sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf then sudo apt-get update – Hakeem Wahab Oct 29 '13 at 08:27
  • Finally solved. Thanks Hakeem. I finally got it using the first.I still had locked file issues, so I rm'ed each locked file one at a time from the top and ran configure - a option until it rebuilt each file, finally asking if I wanted grub to create something. I said yes. then did the update. At this point, I was still showing waiting under the software center. I died a reboot, and everything appears clear now. Thanks. – Jess W Farnsworth Oct 30 '13 at 17:18