Hi all
on my NUC, I updated Webmin recently then it crashed, so I uninstalled and tried to reinstall it but it stuck at “Setting up webmin (1.941) …”
then I got something like that “dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to correct the problem”
I’ve look for solutions but nothing works
any idea ?
also when I run a cleaner selecting APT cache I got :
Log file content:
│ E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily
│ unavailable)
│ E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another
│ process using it?
and
ps aux | grep -i apt
get
root 3865 0.1 1.9 91460 78448 ? S 11:44 0:02 apt-get -qq --allow-change-held-packages install webmin
root 5863 0.0 0.0 6096 880 pts/2 S+ 12:13 0:00 grep -i apt
did you tried to reboot your system to clean temp locks?
reboot yes cleaning no how do I do that ?
if you check after the reboot for running apt processes, do you see some?
it seems no
ps aux | grep -i apt
root 1236 0.0 0.0 6096 824 pts/0 S+ 12:47 0:00 grep -i apt
what happen if you run the following as root
dpkg --configure -a
and
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
rm: impossible de supprimer ‘/var/lib/apt/lists/lock’: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
root@DietPi:~# sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
rm: impossible de supprimer ‘/var/cache/apt/archives/lock’: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
root@DietPi:~# sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
root@DietPi:~# sudo dpkg --configure -a
Paramétrage de webmin (1.941) …
still pending …
dpkg --configure -a
Paramétrage de webmin (1.941) …
pending too …
yes dpkg --configure -a could take a while is it trying to configure the software
ok so I let in run
I’ll keep you informed
it’s still stuck …
did you get any error message?
plop
no error no message just
“Setting up webmin (1.941) …”
So, as I have not found any solution I would like to reverse the installation
does anyone knows what the installation script does ?
or force the uninstall script ?
usually you can run dietpi-software to uninstall stuff that was installed with DietPi tools.
yeah I know but as the installation failed there is no webmin option in the uninstall menu so I’d like to start the script manually
nothing that can’t be fixed 
do the following to get webmin available for uninstall