Hello everybody,

All of a sudden APT get doesnt work on my Debian webserver anymore and I cant log in with ftp on my sites. The hosting company told me that certain processes were locking APT get and a dpkg-configure is blocking FTP access. I killed the processes they talked about but I dont know where to find and end that dpkg-configure. Can anyone enlighten me?
I wanted to post this in the newby section but since it is so specificly server related I thought it would end up here anyway.

You could try
which will list all of the running processes with dpkg-configure in the name. The second column is the process ID, which you can then try to kill.

There's also a "killall" command which kills every process with a particular name, so in your case:
Also, in case you didn't know, then both kill and killall accept the parameter "-9" which will force kill the relevant process(es). This should only really be used as a last resort though, as the affected process will not be given any opportunity to shut down nicely, clean up temporary files and so on.

As a final point, do you know which package caused APT and dpkg to get in this state. If it happens repeatedly for no apparent reason, it might be worth filing a bug against the package.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

In the end my provider helped me out so thing are running now.

Regards,

Robert