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Questions tagged [deadlock]

Questions concerning dead-lock situations arising when two or more processes are unable to proceed (stay freezed, in a way) as each is waiting for one of the others to do something.

A situation where two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.

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Abort active download of packages in Ubuntu from terminal?

I was downloading a package using the terminal. I actually wanted to install package 'A'. But, by mistake started installing package 'B'. I wanted to stop downloading 'B' and start downloading 'A'. I wasn't able to do that. I reset my network…
Vinay Challuru
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How does Ubuntu handle deadlock situations?

I need links to some documentation which states how Ubuntu handles deadlock, which method does it apply? Please note am asking this question as am a new user regarding the os and therefore really confused google is not helpful EDIT-- additional…
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pkexec hanging in gnome 3.28 & xorg, takes forever to proceed, how to fix it?

After the OS is running for a while, it may trigger for a bug that caused pkexec (including any application that use it, including synaptic) to hang. This can only be recovered from relaunching OS or gnome-shell. This is a screenshot that describe…
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How to enable lock detecting configs in Ubuntu

I am developing a program which causes deadlocks. And I want Ubuntu to warn about all the deadlocks in the kernel, so I can know if my program succeeds. It's required that kernel can detect deadlocks automatically. And…
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Is there a way to get the administrator lock opened?

I know that when a package is being installed, the root directory [I think?] gets an administrator lock and can't make an other installation at the same time. Is there a way to stop that installation? If it is so, is it good to do? I heard that it…
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Ubuntu 22.04 having reccuring deadlock freezes when working with a huge part of my RAM being in use (kernel 6.0.0 and 6.2.7)

I am working on a Windows-Ubuntu dual boot laptop, mainly using Ubuntu 22.04 for my studies. In the recent month I was working on a full stack Spring-Boot-Angular web application in IntelliJ and faced at least 5 times (once in a couple of days) a…
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processes came into halt and new started process halt as well

It seems that all my processes has been halted for ~ 4 hours at the time of the screenshot below, since I was running several machine learning experiments with tmux, and I found there has been no output to stdout anymore since 4 hours. I try to…
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