As in #111 but on 15.10.
I got this error after the "Add printer driver"-UI hanged while trying to add openprinting-gutenprint.
This is the process locking the config.dat: |-aptd-+-aptd-+-dpkg
| | `-sh---dpkg-preconfigu---dpkg-preconfigu
I had tried to install the printer driver three times.
So when I found this bug report two days later, I had to run `sudo fuser -vik /var/cache/debconf/config.dat` three times.
Apparently they were waiting in some queue and locked the file (and then hanged) when I kill the current locking process.
As in #111 but on 15.10. gutenprint.
I got this error after the "Add printer driver"-UI hanged while trying to add openprinting-
This is the process locking the config.dat:
|-aptd- +-aptd- +-dpkg dpkg-preconfigu ---dpkg- preconfigu
| | `-sh---
I had tried to install the printer driver three times. debconf/ config. dat` three times.
So when I found this bug report two days later, I had to run `sudo fuser -vik /var/cache/
Apparently they were waiting in some queue and locked the file (and then hanged) when I kill the current locking process.