package portmap 6.0-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Soum]

Binary package hint: portmap

package portmap 6.0-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: portmap 6.0-9ubuntu1
SourcePackage: portmap
Title: package portmap 6.0-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From DpkgTerminalLog.txt:

Setting up portmap (6.0-9ubuntu1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing portmap (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and help to improve Ubuntu.

Your upgrade log shows that another process has the debconf database locked. This is not a bug in portmap; it's reasonable for packages to require access to the debconf database during installation.

Since this bug is now 6 months old, I'm sure we aren't going to be able to determine now what was holding open the database, so I'm closing this report as invalid. If you do have more information available, please feel free to reopen the report.