I also had the issue that dpkg stucks yesterday whith the message "reconfiguring Samba...". I solved this problem with the following command: "sudo restart smbd" IMHO there is a problem in the samba package, and that will be an other bug than this crashing package index bug.
-- update-apt-xapian-index crashed with DatabaseLockError in __init__() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590998 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
