[SOLVED] adduser 3.130, 3.124, and 3.123 when upgrading from 7 to 8

[used1d]

Hello, I am having trouble getting past this page while upgrading from 7 to 8. Recently got past the hook error, but now this. Any help would be appreciated. There is no way to input anything into terminal from machine, but it looks like I can still use web GUI. When I try running

apt dist-upgrade

from web GUI I get this:

Waiting for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 62291 (apt)... 18s

 

[fba]

Hello,
there is another process running for the updates. A second can't be startet in parallel.
Have a look with ps -p 62291 -f what this process is.
Or just kill it with kill 62291 or if this doesn't work kill -9 62291
You might need to do some clean-up before trying again
dpkg --configure -a
apt full-upgrade
It is always good to use a tool like screen or tmux so you can reattach to the terminal if your connection gets lost.

 

[used1d]

Thanks for the fast reply and for the explanation @fba . I tried

kill 62291

but then pressed ENTER and a new line appeared... So I pressed ENTER again and another new line appeared... SO i just held now ENTER and a whooooole slew of stuff appeared, until it stopped and said "Press q to QUIT" so naturally, I pressed "q". Then it took me to more setup stuff and bobs your uncle! So, it seemed as though it wasn't showing the rest of the text unless I pressed ENTER. But I was able to get the install completed after a reboot and am now running 8.4.1! Thanks again!