Lost SSH during upgrade to 7.1

[ptmuldoon]

I went to upgrade my Proxmox set up from 6.4 to 7.1, and things appears to be going well at first.

However, I lost the SSH connection during the upgrade and now unsure if the update completed and/if should attempt to reboot the machine or not.

I can still SSH into the machine and do have local access to it as well.

Currently, if I enter either apt upgrade or apt dist-upgrade, I am told "could not get lock'

and ps aux | grep -i apt shows the following

Last login: Thu Mar 10 11:37:52 2022
root@proxmox:~# apt dist-upgrade
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?
root@proxmox:~# ps aux | grep -i apt
root 6158 0.0 0.1 70056 56636 ? S 10:59 0:01 apt dist-upgrade
root 28471 0.0 0.0 6072 888 pts/2 S+ 11:47 0:00 grep -i apt
root@proxmox:~#

Should I reboot the machine or another way to confirm if the upgrade completed?

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

it should be fine to kill the apt process, then delete the lockfile(/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend) and rerun the upgrade. apt should detect that something is wrong and tell you what to run to fix it(something like dpkg --configure -a, if I remember correctly). Maybe consider taking a look at tools like tmux[1], it allows to create "virtual terminals" to which to can reconnect even after losing ssh.

[1] https://github.com/tmux/tmux

 

[ptmuldoon]

Thanks for the help and that is exactly what I did and it appears everything updated correctly. However the pve-manager is still at 6.4? Should that have also updated?

root@proxmox:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-5-pve)
pve-manager: 6.4-13 (running version: 6.4-13/9f411e79)

EDIT: I got it worked out. It was an issue with APT repositories. After correcting than running the upgrade again, everything looks good.

Thanks again for your help!!