Guessing you are running Ubuntu and you have automatic updates on. See this thread for different solutions https://github.com/boxcutter/ubuntu/issues/86
On Jul 8, 2017 00:21, "Joanna .Leong" <[email protected]> wrote: > correction i mean when executing any package installation like: > "sudo apt-get install -y swig", > > > On Friday, July 7, 2017 at 3:08:17 PM UTC-7, Joanna .Leong wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm running packer and have a shell provisioner executing command >> "apt-get update" and also tried "sudo apt-get update" and also tried >> sleeping before executing these commands. Regardless I keep getting the >> error: >> >> Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily >> unavailable) >> Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)%!(PACKER_COMMA) >> is another process using it? >> >> No matter how long I sleep I keep seeing this error. >> > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/9c599b9a-0fef-4042-8d31-3ec99934aa75%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/9c599b9a-0fef-4042-8d31-3ec99934aa75%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-d7A%2B7oRY3Uxg6Asqj3ah9kRrLFGUJnNFm5ovKRzo6kg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
