I have just run my automated setup scripts, and I noticed in the log an error during config.sh:
... Notice: /Stage[main]/Php/Package[php-pear]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present' Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install mysql-client' returned 100: Reading package lists... [0/1953] Building dependency tree... ... Need to get 11.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 40.6 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libnet-daemon-perl all 0.48-1 [43.1 kB] Get:2 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libplrpc-perl all 0.2020-2 [36.0 kB] Get:3 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libdbi-perl amd64 1.616-1build2 [849 kB] Get:4 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libdbd-mysql-perl amd64 4.020-1build2 [106 kB] Get:5 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libterm-readkey-perl amd64 2.30-4build3 [28.6 kB] Get:6 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main mysql-client-core-5.5 amd64 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 [1938 kB] Get:7 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main mysql-client-5.5 amd64 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 [8338 kB] Get:8 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main mysql-client all 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 [11.3 kB] Fetched 11.3 MB in 18s (626 kB/s) dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Notice: /Stage[main]/Php/Package[php5-ldap]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present' Notice: /Stage[main]/Php/Package[php5-curl]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present' Notice: /Stage[main]/Php/Package[fail2ban]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present' Notice: /Stage[main]/Php/Package[libapache2-mod-php5]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present' Notice: /Stage[main]/Php/Package[php5-imap]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present' ... More output here: https://gist.github.com/snowch/11339042 Has an error occurred that puppet has recovered and fixed? Or, has an error occurred that puppet and config.sh have ignored? Many thanks, Chris