Andrew Schulman wrote: > This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' > that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is > totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by > another process > > and everything fails. Right now I have 11 uninstallable packages. > > I have hunted down and killed every running process that matches apt*, > dpkg*, or debconf*. Still the accursed lock remains. I can't find any > obvious lock files in /var/lock or /var/cache/debconf.
The lock is a flock() lock which can only be held open if the process remains running, so you obviously missed killing something. Try lsof. -- see shy jo
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