
Error: Another active Homebrew update process is already in progress.
Please wait for it to finish or terminate it to continue.
Failed during: /opt/homebrew/bin/brew update --force --quiet
Solution:
Do a ps -ef and see what all brew processes are running,
ps -ef | grep brew
501 3564 2176 0 1:43PM ttys000 0:00.03 /bin/bash /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.sh update
501 3785 3564 0 1:43PM ttys000 0:00.00 /bin/bash /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.sh update
501 3818 3817 0 1:43PM ttys000 0:00.01 /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/libexec/git-core/git remote-https origin https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
501 3820 3818 0 1:43PM ttys000 0:00.12 /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-https origin https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
501 5728 2176 0 2:04PM ttys000 0:00.01 grep brew
% kill -9 3564
[1] + killed brew update
% kill -9 3785
[1] + killed brew update
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