Apt update not working anymore

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Gamienator

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Hey there,

for a couple of days my proxmox Hypervisor isn't able to update apt :confused:.

This is my current output:

Code: 
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 3885896 (apt-get)
N: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system.
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/


When I kill the process and run apt update its getting stuck on the following screen for hours...

Code: 
root@proxmox1:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease                             
Hit:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm InRelease                     
Hit:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
0% [Working]


Does anybody got an idea what could go wrong?
 
Hi,
Gamienator said:
Code: 
root@proxmox1:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease                            
Hit:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm InRelease                    
Hit:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
0% [Working]
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do you have other repositories configured beside those four? It might be stuck connecting to/querying the next one.
 
What is the output of ps aux | grep "apt\|dpkg"? Can you run strace apt update &> /tmp/apt-strace.log and share the resulting file (or tail -n 100 /tmp/apt-strace.log if it's too big)?
 
Heyho,
sorry for the late reply! Private life was turbulent :eek:

fiona said:
What is the output of ps aux | grep "apt\|dpkg"?
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Code: 
root@proxmox1:~# ps aux | grep "apt\|dpkg"
100000   2209312  0.0  0.0   4476  2176 ?        S    10:03   0:00 /bin/bash ./mk_apt
100000   2209313  0.0  0.0   4476  1276 ?        S    10:03   0:00 /bin/bash ./mk_apt
100000   2209314  0.0  0.0  13612  5760 ?        S    10:03   0:00 apt-get update -qq
100100   2209317  0.0  0.0  19280  5888 ?        S    10:03   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
100100   2209318  0.0  0.0  19280  6016 ?        S    10:03   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
100100   2209326  0.0  0.0  12380  4480 ?        S    10:03   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv
root     2217898  0.0  0.0   7456  2560 ?        S    10:04   0:00 /bin/bash ./mp_apt
root     2217899  0.0  0.0   7456  1388 ?        S    10:04   0:00 /bin/bash ./mp_apt
root     2217900  0.0  0.0  16592  6912 ?        S    10:04   0:00 apt-get update -qq
_apt     2217903  0.0  0.0  22264  7424 ?        S    10:04   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
_apt     2217905  0.0  0.0  22264  7168 ?        S    10:04   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
_apt     2217906  0.0  0.0  22264  7296 ?        S    10:04   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
_apt     2217908  0.0  0.0  15360  5376 ?        S    10:04   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv
100100   2240445  0.0  0.0  12380  3084 ?        S    10:06   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv
100100   2240446  0.0  0.0   2576  1280 ?        S    10:06   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/apt-key --quiet --readonly verify --status-fd 3 /tmp/apt.sig.OOwWMi /tmp/apt.data.oEaJSW
100100   2240535  0.0  0.0   3468  1280 ?        D    10:06   0:00 cp -a /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.J1gBFSjVE0/pubring.gpg /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.J1gBFSjVE0/pubring.orig.gpg
_apt     2247333  0.0  0.0  15360  3088 ?        S    10:07   0:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv
_apt     2247350  0.0  0.0   2576  1536 ?        S    10:07   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/apt-key --quiet --readonly verify --status-fd 3 /tmp/apt.sig.mALuEw /tmp/apt.data.dk4qeX
_apt     2247577  0.0  0.0   3468  1792 ?        D    10:07   0:00 cp -a /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.sL2UC5YnPH/pubring.gpg /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.sL2UC5YnPH/pubring.orig.gpg
root     2274123  0.0  0.0   6332  1792 pts/0    S+   10:10   0:00 grep apt\|dpkg

fiona said:
Can you run strace apt update &> /tmp/apt-strace.log and share the resulting file (or tail -n 100 /tmp/apt-strace.log if it's too big)?
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I added a attachment :)
 

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Make shure all apt and dpkg processes are killed.

Find all remaining lock files from those processes

find /var -type f -name lock

and remove them (only of they Belang to apt and dpkg)

Try apt Update

and apt upgrade again
 
Thats the Problem ... nothing is locked! When I remove all sources from the apt list its working fine. It seems to me that my Proxmox is not able to proccess the packages
 
Okay, a new update. After making sure no process is running I noticed: apt-update takes 30 Minutes to fetch all! That is way to long ... I'll change some sources maybe :/
 
Hey there,
found the issue. One of the SystemSSD war failing, so the IO Load was beyond good and evil. Swapping the SSD fixed everything.
 
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