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Seeing Lock already exists: /var/run/munin/munin-update.lock? Don’t worry it just means your munin updater is slow

Luckily this forum post explains the issue.

I’ve had this problem if the munin-update process takes longer than 5
minutes. The reason this happens is because the cronjob is set to run
every 5 minutes to gather data, so if it is still running from the last
job, you will get this error.

Read it yourself

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