Anyone got any ideas how I get out of this?

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$ sup
Error: the index is locked by another process! User '' on
host '' is running  with pid .
The process was alive as of at least 4216 minutes ago.
Should I ask that process to kill itself (y/n)? n
Sorry, couldn't unlock the index.
$
$ sup
Error: the index is locked by another process! User '' on
host '' is running  with pid .
The process was alive as of at least 4216 minutes ago.
Should I ask that process to kill itself (y/n)? y
Ok, trying to kill process...
Terminated
$
$ sup
Error: the index is locked by another process! User '' on
host '' is running  with pid .
The process was alive as of at least 4217 minutes ago.
Should I ask that process to kill itself (y/n)?
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