[Bug 1922477] Re: unattended-upgrade crashed with apt.cache.LockFailedException in __enter__(): Failed to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/: E:Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by process 26973 (apt-get)

[Brian Murray]

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Title:
  unattended-upgrade crashed with apt.cache.LockFailedException in
  __enter__(): Failed to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/:
  E:Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by
  process 26973 (apt-get)

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  got this while installing latest update.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: unattended-upgrades 2.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-1004.4-raspi 5.11.7
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-1004-raspi aarch64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61
  Architecture: arm64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  Date: Fri Apr  2 17:42:45 2021
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
  ImageMediaBuild: 20201022
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.9
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.9, Python 3.9.2, python3-minimal, 3.9.2-2
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade']
  PythonDetails: N/A
  SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
  Title: unattended-upgrade crashed with apt.cache.LockFailedException in __enter__(): Failed to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/: E:Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by process 26973 (apt-get)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-03-25 (9 days ago)
  UserGroups: N/A

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