This is not fixed, it just affected me on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, resulting in the the subsequent server configuration failing completely because awscli and jq were missing.
Output: Cloud-init v. 21.3-1-g6803368d-0ubuntu1~20.04.4 running 'modules:config' at Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:05:29 +0000. Up 18.13 seconds. Get:1 http://eu-central-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB] [... more Gets] E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 2764 (unattended-upgr) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it? Cloud-init v. 21.3-1-g6803368d-0ubuntu1~20.04.4 running 'modules:final' at Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:05:30 +0000. Up 19.15 seconds. 2021-11-12 11:05:38,955 - util.py[WARNING]: Package upgrade failed E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 2764 (unattended-upgr) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it? 2021-11-12 11:05:38,999 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed to install packages: ['awscli', 'nmap', 'tcpdump', 'bind9utils', 'curl', 'wget', 'vim', 'jq', 'htop', 'tmux', 'git', 'iotop', 'iftop', 'fail2ban'] 2021-11-12 11:05:38,999 - cc_package_update_upgrade_install.py[WARNING]: 2 failed with exceptions, re-raising the last one 2021-11-12 11:05:39,000 - util.py[WARNING]: Running module package-update-upgrade-install (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_package_update_upgrade_install' from '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_package_update_upgrade_install.py'>) failed Note: Before=apt-daily.service is only set on cloud-final.service. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1693361 Title: cloud-init sometimes fails on dpkg lock due to concurrent apt- daily.service execution To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apt/+bug/1693361/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
