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unattended-upgrades package

unattended-upgrade crashed with apt.cache.LockFailedException in enter(): Failed to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/: E:Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by process 26973 (apt-get)

Bug #1922477 reported by Makis Livadas on 2021-04-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

got this while installing latest update.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 2.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-1004.4-raspi 5.11.7
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-1004-raspi aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61
Architecture: arm64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Fri Apr 2 17:42:45 2021
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
ImageMediaBuild: 20201022
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.9, Python 3.9.2, python3-minimal, 3.9.2-2
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade']
PythonDetails: N/A
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
Title: unattended-upgrade crashed with apt.cache.LockFailedException in __enter__(): Failed to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/: E:Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by process 26973 (apt-get)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-03-25 (9 days ago)
UserGroups: N/A

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Makis Livadas (glivadas) wrote on 2021-04-04:

.var.log.apt.history.log.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
.var.log.unattended-upgrades.unattended-upgrades.log.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (111.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (271 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (35.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2021-04-04

tags:	removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2021-07-23

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Ubuntuunattended-upgrades package

unattended-upgrade crashed with apt.cache.LockFailedException in __enter__(): Failed to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/: E:Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. It is held by process 26973 (apt-get)