gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[Simon Newbury]

I wasn't using gdebi at the time. Error just happened. Was browsing some folder in Nautilus.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gdebi-core 0.8.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 12 08:41:32 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/gdebi/gdebi
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi', 'google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Traceback: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-11 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!

Please report this issue to maintainers of google-chrome-stable_current package, which is causing this problem. Please note that is not the one provided by Ubuntu.

[Guy Taylor (thebiggerguy)]

I am getting this error. Are you stating that "gedbi" is not supported or that installing third party software with "gdebi" is not supported?

guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo gdebi virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127-Ubuntu-wily_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: libsdl1.2debian

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dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Error during install: 'installArchives() failed'guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$

guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ uname -a
Linux other-laptop 4.2.0-25-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 12:31:50 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux