dpkg lock when calling on apt-get

[Harrison Steven Sherman]

when attempting to install wine1.5 on lubuntu my system froze on the EULA agreement and I exited the terminal. Upon running apt-get autoremove to attempt a reinstall I ran into the error:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I first attempted to kill the apt-get process but permission was denied, so I tried sudo killall apt-get but ran into the same problem. So I ran

rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

follwed by

sudo dpkg --configure -a

which returned:

Processing triggers for man-db ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libunistring0 (0.9.3-5) ...
Setting up libgettextpo0 (0.18.1.1-5ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libodbc1 (2.2.14p2-5ubuntu3) ...
Setting up cabextract (1.4-1) ...
Setting up odbcinst (2.2.14p2-5ubuntu3) ...
Setting up odbcinst1debian2 (2.2.14p2-5ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 man-db
harry@bmo2:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/

Thinking this error was the same as before I ran killall apt-get once again, which had returned no response, so I entered sudo apt-get autoremove to test for conflicting packages and returned:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/27.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 133 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `ttf-mscorefonts-installer' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 136547 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4ubuntu3 (using .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I was then notified that there was a system problem and filed a bug report, which took me to a report telling me to run

sudo fuser /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat: 22897

which returned nothing

followed by:

pstree -s $pid

and to then report the result.
like so:

init─┬─NetworkManager─┬─dhclient
     │ ├─dnsmasq
     │ └─2*[{NetworkManager}]
     ├─accounts-daemon───{accounts-daemon}
     ├─atd
     ├─bluetoothd
     ├─chromium-browse─┬─chromium-browse
     │ ├─chromium-browse───6*[{chromium-browse}]
     │ └─27*[{chromium-browse}]
     ├─chromium-browse─┬─chromium-browse
     │ └─chromium-browse─┬─2*[chromium-browse───3*[{chromium-br+
     │ └─chromium-browse─┬─2*[{chromium-brows+
     │ └─{chromium-browse}\+
     ├─console-kit-dae─┬─63*[{console-kit-dae}]
     │ └─{console-kit-dae}\224\227
     ├─cron
     ├─cupsd
     ├─2*[dbus-daemon]
     ├─dbus-launch
     ├─dconf-service───2*[{dconf-service}]
     ├─dpkg───frontend─┬─preinst
     │ └─whiptail
     ├─gconfd-2
     ├─6*[getty]
     ├─gnome-keyring-d───4*[{gnome-keyring-d}]
     ├─gnome-keyring-d
     ├─gvfs-afc-volume───{gvfs-afc-volume}
     ├─gvfs-fuse-daemo─┬─2*[{gvfs-fuse-daemo}]
     │ └─{gvfs-fuse-daemo}\224\227
     ├─gvfs-gdu-volume
     ├─gvfs-gphoto2-vo
     ├─gvfsd
     ├─gvfsd-cdda
     ├─gvfsd-http───2*[{gvfsd-http}]
     ├─gvfsd-metadata
     ├─gvfsd-trash
     ├─irqbalance
     ├─lightdm─┬─Xorg
     │ ├─lightdm─┬─lxsession─┬─lxpanel
     │ │ │ ├─openbox
     │ │ │ ├─polkit-gnome-au───2*[{polkit-gnome-au}]
     │ │ │ ├─ssh-agent
     │ │ │ ├─xscreensaver
     │ │ │ └─{lxsession}
     │ │ └─{lightdm}
     │ └─2*[{lightdm}]
     ├─lxtask
     ├─lxterminal─┬─bash───pstree
     │ ├─lxterminal
     │ └─{lxterminal}
     ├─menu-cached
     ├─modem-manager
     ├─nm-applet───{nm-applet}
     ├─notification-da───{notification-da}\224\227
     ├─ntpd
     ├─oneconf-service───2*[{oneconf-service}]
     ├─polkitd───{polkitd}
     ├─python
     ├─rsyslogd───3*[{rsyslogd}]
     ├─transmission-gt───4*[{transmission-gt}]
     ├─udevd───2*[udevd]
     ├─udisks-daemon─┬─udisks-daemon
     │ └─2*[{udisks-daemon}]
     ├─update-notifier─┬─2*[{update-notifier}]
     │ └─{update-notifier}\224\227
     ├─upowerd───2*[{upowerd}]
     ├─upstart-socket-
     ├─upstart-udev-br
     ├─wpa_supplicant
     ├─xfce4-power-man───{xfce4-power-man}
     └─xfconfd

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Please and thank you,
MY BRAIN IS ON FIRE