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[Bug 349469] Re: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable

 

If you want to see this in action I have a set of provisioning scripts
that reprocuce the problem in an automated way...

On a brand new Debian 8.1 linode, if you run my script it will prompt
you for a mysql password-- the thing is I tried to pre-set the mysql
password with debconf.

git clone https://github.com/bradchesney79/2015DebianJessieWebserverProject.git
pushd 2015DebianJessieWebserverProject-master/
git checkout ef2dd6e396c0b88652c47c39f2cf692d562d9d23
popd
mkdir -p /root/bin
cp -R /root/2015DebianJessieWebserverProject-master/* /root/bin/
./root/bin/build-script.sh

The system will begin to build.

<CTRL> + <Z> the password prompt to get back to the command line.

I try to run the debconf command after the fact:

root@server/root/# echo "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password select
passw0rd" | debconf-set-selections

<Output>
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable  
</Output>

root@server/root/# fuser -v /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

<Output>
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND                                           
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat:                                                                
                     root      19165 F.... frontend
</Output>
                                           
root@server/root/# kill 19165

Succeeds.

root@server/root/# echo "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password select
passw0rd" | debconf-set-selections

Succeeds.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349469

Title:
  debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by
  another process: Resource temporarily unavailable

Status in Ambasa:
  New
Status in Debconf:
  New
Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in debconf package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Upgrading packages that use debconf sometimes fail with the following
  error:

  debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by
  another process: Resource temporarily unavailable

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