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Ham Ar
Asked: 2019-01-23 11:47:14 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 18.04 update stuck at "Setting up redis-server (5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.1) ..."

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Whenever I update my Ubuntu software or run the command sudo dpkg --configure -a, it gets stuck at the line Setting up redis-server (5:4.0.9-1ubuntu0.1) .... I don't know why this is happening.

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4 Answers

  1. I uninstalled redis-server:

    sudo apt-get purge redis-server

    and installed it again from this repository.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt -y install redis-server

    Now it works fine.

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  2. I did ps auxand found that redis server was working...

    redis      535  0.0  0.1  51444  4772 ?        Ssl  01:41   0:00 /usr/bin/redis-server *:6379

    Killed this process and it doesn't stuck again. However, still cannot install redis 

    Job for redis-server.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.################################################################################################################..................................................................................] 
See "systemctl status redis-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
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  3. Systemd and redis-sentinal disagreed on where the pid file was. My /etc/redis/sentinel.conf was listing the pid as /var/run/redis/redis-sentinel.pid, whereas systemd was looking for /var/run/sentinel/redis-sentinel.pid.

    As a result, systemd was killing redis-sentinel and restarting it over and over.

    I updated the sentinel.conf to point to the location configured in systemd.

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  4. I faced the same problem so I remove 

    rm -rf /run/systemd/generator.late/redis-server.service

    Now it's working fine. Maybe this will help you

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