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sysvinit package

package sysv-rc 2.87dsf-4ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #435245 reported by kalapragu on 2009-09-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #349469: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sysvinit (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: sysvinit

crash

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 23 16:00:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: sysv-rc 2.87dsf-4ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: sysvinit
Title: package sysv-rc 2.87dsf-4ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

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kalapragu (kalapragu) wrote on 2009-09-23:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (550 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (48.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (106.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2009-11-21:

Thanks for your report.

The error is :
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Setting up sysv-rc (2.87dsf-4ubuntu7) ...

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

dpkg: error processing sysv-rc (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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This has already been reported in bug #377211. I'm marking it as duplicate.

Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.