I think I found something else that might be slightly related. I first came across this error when I was removing some packages remotely via ssh. There seems to be a problem with man-db. See the terminal output below from when I removed a package. Look carefully at the last few lines.
karatekid@MGD-Server:~$ sudo apt-get remove parole [sudo] password for karatekid: no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: parole 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 1,800 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable (Reading database ... 231413 files and directories currently installed.) Removing parole (0.6.1-0ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Setting up man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ... debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable dpkg: error processing package man-db (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) karatekid@MGD-Server:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349469 Title: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ambasa/+bug/349469/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs