server packages errors

[thunder63cs]

I recentled upgraded all the packages on my server and now I have an issue where I can't get any thing to install or uninstall do to errors, This is what I get:


praetorian@praetorian:~$ ps ax | grep dpkg
7330 pts/1 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 21 --configure bind9 cups cups-bsd
7331 pts/1 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind9.postinst configure 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1ubuntu2
7814 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto dpkg
praetorian@ praetorian:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
praetorian@praetorian:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up man-db (2.5.9-4) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up cups-bsd (1.4.6-5ubuntu1.1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing cups-bsd (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up bind9 (1:9.7.3.dfsg-1ubuntu2.1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing bind9 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up cups (1.4.6-5ubuntu1.1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing cups (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
man-db
cups-bsd
bind9
cups

[smurphy_it]

Locked ?

Did you check for a lock file, or see if you have a browser window opened which is accessing synaptic ?

You could see if anything is holding it open with fuser or lsof.

fuser dpkg
lsof dpkg
fuser | grep deb

For example.

[thunder63cs]

yes it is showing a locked or unavalable part in teh report it is giving

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

which before it was the dpkg lock file was locked so I did what I saw in another thread to remove it and then do the sudo dpkg -- configure -a to try and get it working which then brought up the new errors ..

I am running 11.04 server

This is a ubuntu only machine

[smurphy_it]

Did fuser of lsof find anything ?

[thunder63cs]

specified file name dpkg does not exist. is what fuser and lsof gave me

[smurphy_it]

No open synaptic windows, or zombies of it ?

ps -aef | grep synaptic

[thunder63cs]

No open synaptic windows, or zombies of it ?

ps -aef | grep synaptic

the responce I get from that is :

1000 10041 7628 0 15:29 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto synaptic


sry I am a noob when it comes to this everything I have learned I have done on my own via research or books. Just running into an issue that have had no luck with.

[arrrghhh]

the responce I get from that is :

1000 10041 7628 0 15:29 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto synaptic


sry I am a noob when it comes to this everything I have learned I have done on my own via research or books. Just running into an issue that have had no luck with.

You said this is a Server install, right? So no Synaptic, there's no GUI in the Server edition.

Well, a quick&dirty way to see if it's just something holding a lock is to reboot.

To narrow down what has a lock on the config.dat file,

lsof |grep config.dat

[thunder63cs]

You said this is a Server install, right? So no Synaptic, there's no GUI in the Server edition.

Well, a quick&dirty way to see if it's just something holding a lock is to reboot.

To narrow down what has a lock on the config.dat file,

lsof |grep config.dat

after I do that with out sudo I get nothing with sudo I get this:

frontend 7331 root 4uW REG 251,0 60107 1966457 /var/cache/d ebconf/config.dat

[arrrghhh]

after I do that with out sudo I get nothing with sudo I get this:

frontend 7331 root 4uW REG 251,0 60107 1966457 /var/cache/d ebconf/config.dat

Hrm. Well, root definitely has a lock on that file. I'm not familiar with 'frontend' tho. Doing a find on my system makes me think it's related to debconf.

I'm not really sure how to proceed... I could have you kill that process, not sure of the repercussions. Have you tried simply rebooting?