On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 03:42:23AM -0000, Brad Chesney wrote: > If you want to see this in action I have a set of provisioning scripts > that reprocuce the problem in an automated way...
> On a brand new Debian 8.1 linode, if you run my script it will prompt > you for a mysql password-- the thing is I tried to pre-set the mysql > password with debconf. > git clone > https://github.com/bradchesney79/2015DebianJessieWebserverProject.git > pushd 2015DebianJessieWebserverProject-master/ > git checkout ef2dd6e396c0b88652c47c39f2cf692d562d9d23 > popd > mkdir -p /root/bin > cp -R /root/2015DebianJessieWebserverProject-master/* /root/bin/ > ./root/bin/build-script.sh > The system will begin to build. > <CTRL> + <Z> the password prompt to get back to the command line. > I try to run the debconf command after the fact: > root@server/root/# echo "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password select > passw0rd" | debconf-set-selections Ok, well, this is user error. The database *is* locked. The reason this bug is open is because it's assumed that somehow, two packages are trying to use the debconf database in parallel; if you're trying to access it yourself while the debconf frontend is running, that's not a bug. -- 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
