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package samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #230596 reported by TheMixtureMedia on 2008-05-15

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

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

Bug Description

Just happened as I opened up firefox also I am using ubuntu 8.04

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 14 00:52:48 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: samba
Title: package samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

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TheMixtureMedia (mpmckinnon) wrote on 2008-05-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (53.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2008-07-31:

That's because debconf fails:

Setting up samba-common (3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing samba-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2010-01-10:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 349469, so it is being marked as such. 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.