Public bug reported: Using 0.7.9-48-g1c795b9-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 and testing on two machines, I had a 50% failure rate when installing "sl" and "mutt" packages (just testing).
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process There's nothing else in cloud-init that'd be running dpkg so I suspect this is a race with e.g. an apt-get update running as part of a boot (nothing I've specifically asked for in other words). I might try and work around this with aptdcon as per https://askubuntu.com/questions/132059/how-to-make-a-package-manager- wait-if-another-instance-of-apt-is-running (we build AMIs and this is when we add user-data to those AMIs so we can _ensure_ that aptdcon is installed before user-data). However it looks like cloud-init and package: is unreliable in other cases. ** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686454 Title: cloud-init package install is unreliable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1686454/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
