git: Error: Another active Homebrew process is already in progress

Question

When I try to do anything with Homebrew, I get the following error and don't know how to resolve it. I run: brew update

I get the following error message:

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/lock.sh: line 19:/usr/local/var/homebrew/locks/update: Permission denied
    -e:1:in 'initialize': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)
        from -e:1:in 'new'
        from -e:1:in '<main>'
    Error: Another active Homebrew process is already in progress. 
    Please wait for it to finish or terminate it to continue.

`myUsername 1017 0.0 0.0 2453272 836 s002 S+ 1:52PM 0:00.00 grep brew` — Erik P., Nov 11 '16 at 21:52
See my answer on another thread : https://stackoverflow.com/a/39812903/875978 — kalibrain, Oct 16 '17 at 16:12

Ortomala Lokni · Answer 1 · 2023-01-13T09:40:58.810

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That's probably because another instance of Homebrew crashed and left a lock file. You can delete it manually by deleting all files in the lock directory with :

rm $(brew --prefix)/var/homebrew/locks/*

edited Jan 13 '23 at 09:40

answered Nov 12 '16 at 07:54

Ortomala Lokni

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Better: `rm $(brew --prefix)/var/homebrew/locks/*` (in case Homebrew configured to use different directories). The `brew(1)` manual page says Intel/Arm MacOS and Linux each have distinct configuration for Homebrew's install path. – FooF Jan 13 '23 at 09:37

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '17 at 12:51

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I solved it by rm -rf /usr/local/Library/Locks/*

answered Feb 23 '17 at 12:51

Akanksha Gupta

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