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I'm still very much a novice when it comes to Linux as a whole, and I have no clue what's happening here.

I tried to install redis-server in order to integrate BLAST into my JBrowse install (program to search for nucleotide sequences, and a visual browser for displaying this data). When I used:

sudo apt-get install redis-server

The install hangs at 

Setting up redis-server (2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.3) ...

after giving the program 2 days to run, I killed the thread by first using

ps aux | grep apt

Which gives

perryg    7954  0.0  0.0  14224   924 pts/7    S+   01:57   0:00 grep --color=au                                                                                                                                                             to apt
root     38576  0.0  0.0  54792  3900 pts/3    S+   Dec14   0:00 sudo apt-get pu                                                                                                                                                             rge --auto-remove redis-server
root     38577  0.0  0.0 118568 80428 pts/3    S+   Dec14   1:29 apt-get purge -                                                                                                                                                             -auto-remove redis-server

I used 

sudo kill 38577
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove

-or-

sudo apt-get install --fix-missing

and it always hangs at 

Setting up redis-server (2:3.0.6-1ubuntu0.3) ...

Any help is appreciated.

Kulfy
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eng050599
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My solution was to kill all redis-server processes, and try the remove again.

ps aux | grep redis

And use kill <pid> or kill -9 <pid>.

David Magalhães
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I had the same issue and it turns out I already had an Redis installed (not from apt) and running by default. I removed the init script for the non-packaged redis:

$ sudo mv /etc/init.d/redis_#### /usr/local/src/redis-stable/

Then when I restarted I could successfully install/remove the redis-server package.

Michael Lenzen
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Looks like it's a bug : https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3241

So the (temporary) solution is to edit /etc/redis/redis.conf and remove the '::1' in the line:

bind 127.0.0.1 ::1

After that, you can start redis with systemctl or service.

xtof54
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