bacula install fails and breaks dpkg

[Scott L]

The bacula install was stuck when trying to configure the Postgres sql database
I could not find clear install instructions on the bacula site.

So now I'm trying to back it out with synaptic package manager, using the 'completely remove' option, but even this is now failing.

debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
(Reading database ... 300555 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bacula (9.0.6-1build1) ...
Removing bacula-server (9.0.6-1build1) ...
Removing bacula-director (9.0.6-1build1) ...
Removing bacula-director-pgsql (9.0.6-1build1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package bacula-director-pgsql (--remove):
 installed bacula-director-pgsql package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 installed bacula-director-pgsql package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bacula-director-pgsql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up bacula-director-pgsql (9.0.6-1build1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package bacula-director-pgsql (--configure):
 installed bacula-director-pgsql package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bacula-director-pgsql

I'm fairly new to ubuntu, and open source, so please let me know if I should be logging this somewhere else.
I've tried to search for a fix on the bacula site but can't seem to find anything relevant.

Hope you can help. Right now with this in its current state, I'm unable to install anything (or uninstall).
I'm considering a nuke and pave of the Ubuntu mate OS, but my backup software isn't currently working either.

Thanks in advance,
Scooz

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Hi, thanks for taking the time to file a bug, however this is more of a local configuration issue. I would highly suggest taking your bug and making a thread on the community forums. That is the best place to get help for questions like this.

From the log:

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

It looks like something is running, like another apt/apt-get process that is blocking the remove. Making sure no other operations are going on, and possibly even rebooting may help.

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem,
rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I am marking this bug as 'Incomplete'.

However, if you believe that this is really a bug in Ubuntu, then we would
be grateful if you would provide a more complete description of the problem
with steps to reproduce, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu
rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug
status back to "New".

For local configuration issues, you can find assistance here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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