package irqbalance 0.55 20091017-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Stan Winchester]

was just doing a system update

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: irqbalance 0.55+20091017-3ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 7 13:11:01 2011
Df:

ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427)
SourcePackage: irqbalance
Title: package irqbalance 0.55+20091017-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Thanks for the bug report, please can you comment if something else was running concurrently that was using dpkg?

It looks like another dpkg based process locked the db.

Thanks.

Setting up irqbalance (0.55+20091017-3ubuntu2) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing irqbalance (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libbsd0 (0.2.0-1) ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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