[Bug 377211] Re: config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Alex Gg]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 349469 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349469

I tried all of these but 'fuser -v /var/cache/debconf/config.dat'
returned nothing.  However, 'sudo fuser -v
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat' worked,  then I killed the process (not
sure exactly what it was) and reinstalled flashplugin-installer.

ra at shangri-ra:~$ sudo fuser -v /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat:
                     root       2931 F.... frontend
ra at shangri-ra:~$ sudo fuser -k /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat:  2931
ra at shangri-ra:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-installer
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: flashplugin-installer is broken or not fully installed
ra at shangri-ra:~$ sudo apt-get clean
ra at shangri-ra:~$ sudo apt-get flashplugin-installer
E: Invalid operation flashplugin-installer
ra at shangri-ra:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 136 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching ttf-mscorefonts-installer:i386
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.238ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
ra at shangri-ra:~$

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Title:
  config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily
  unavailable

Status in “debconf” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: postgresql-common

  Using Ubuntu 9.04 Live USB created with Unetbootin, I wanted to
  install pgadmin to manage a company database but the package failed to
  install.

  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
  Package: postgresql-common 97
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: postgresql-common
  Title: package postgresql-common 97 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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