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Asked by Dave Stroud

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

It is not searching at all. This has been going on for two days. Sudo apt-get returns the same error. Is repository down? Thanks

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Ulf Karlsson (ohmega) said : 		#1

It seems like you have an apt process suspended in the background or something. Check your process list. If not, just remove the lock file.

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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) said : 		#2

where do I find lock file. Please thanks

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seisen1 (seisen-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

I had that same problem and it was the update manager running in the background trying to get updates. How long do you have your computer running before you boot?

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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) said : 		#4

I run most of the day. Shutdown for 6-8 hours at night.

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Best seisen1 (seisen-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Open up your gnome system monitor and see if you have more than one instance of synaptic or something else running.

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Dave Stroud (bigdavesr) said : 		#6

I turned off automatic update and restarted my computer. That fixed it. Thanks again. You folks are great.

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bigsharp02 (bigsharp02) said : 		#7

Do this:

ps aux | grep apt-get

and see if the process is running if it is then kill it and try again...

If not then you may have fried your lib dir, I had a friend do that to his server when updating to a new version.