DPKG Problem

[anuragsachan07]

I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I got this problem since few days i searched over net but cant find any solution that worked for me.
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root@localhost:/home/anurag# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up cvs (2:1.12.13+real-6ubuntu0.1) ...
Allowing use of questionable username.
Adding group `_cvsadmin' (GID 130) ...
groupadd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.
addgroup: `/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 130 _cvsadmin' returned error code 10. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing cvs (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
cvs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Please help me..




Thanks & Regards
Anurag Sachan

[Paddy Landau]

Try these three commands:

sudo dpkg --configure --pending
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[raja.genupula]

sudo rm /etc/group.lock
sudo rm /etc/gshadow.lock

then try again .