0008645: the system fails to update - Kali Linux Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008645	Kali Linux	Tool Upgrade Request	public	2024-02-24 20:33	2024-02-25 12:19

Reporter	stanozlolz	Assigned To	daniruiz
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required

Summary	0008645: the system fails to update
Description	<html>Cannot obtain lock:<br /><br />E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 5124 (apt-get) W: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system. E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it? </html>

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2024-02-24 20:33	stanozlolz	New Issue
2024-02-25 12:19	daniruiz	Note Added: 0018938
2024-02-25 12:19	daniruiz	Assigned To	=> daniruiz
2024-02-25 12:19	daniruiz	Status	new => closed
2024-02-25 12:19	daniruiz	Resolution	open => no change required

daniruiz 2024-02-25 12:19 manager ~0018938	The output tells you that another process is using dpkg. You can wait until that process finishes or if it has failed just reboot. You might need to run `sudo dpkg --configure -a` afterwards I'm closing this as it's not a bug but an error caused by the user.