Comment 18 for bug 349469
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 349469] Re: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable | #18 |
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 04:09:35PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 03:41:52PM -0000, Leonardo Santagada @ Proge.com.br wrote:
> > the problem for me appeared to be that software center was open while
> > installing using the command line apt-get... but I'm not sure it was
> > really related.
> This is indeed a classic reason for getting this kind of error. You can
> only use one package management program at a time.
Isn't it a bit strange to hit a debconf error in that case, however? You
should run into locking problems with either apt or dpkg well before debconf
is involved.
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