Lost Connection Upgrading Packages

[Nefariousparity]

Starting system upgrade: apt-get dist-upgrade
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3046287 (apt-get)
N: 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?

System not fully up to date (found 152 new packages)

starting shell

Just a simple upgrade, how do I remedy this situation to finish simple package upgrade. Thank you!

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

apparently a process with pid 3046287 is doing an update/install (and got stuck?). If possible, you can either
* restart your system, or
* kill the process with kill -9 3046287 + you might have to delete /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend after killing it (just try updating again, and if he complains again you have to delete it)