No, or that depends in what you did. If there already are a process holding this lock you need to shut it down gracefully.
On 20 July 2017 at 20:41, Joanna .Leong <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually do I need to run a command to have packer restart the VM for my > changes to take in effect? > > Still I"m getting the following error: > Reading package lists... > 2017-07-20T00:38:23.0415790Z 1500511103,,ui,message, prod: E: Could not > get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) > 2017-07-20T00:38:23.0467600Z 1500511103,,ui,message, prod: E: Unable to > lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)%!(PACKER_COMMA) is > another process using it? > > On Friday, July 14, 2017 at 1:09:27 PM UTC-7, Joanna .Leong wrote: >> >> nevermind, got it working; needed to do: >> sudo sh -c 'echo "APT::Periodic::Enable "0";" >> >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic' >> >> On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 9:11:44 PM UTC-7, Rickard von Essen wrote: >>> >>> Could you attach your packer template and scripts. >>> >>> On 14 July 2017 at 01:59, Joanna .Leong <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I've added the following to the beginning of my shell provisioning >>> > script: >>> > sudo systemctl disable apt-daily.service # disable run when system boot >>> > sudo systemctl disable apt-daily.timer # disable timer run >>> > >>> > # Disable daily apt unattended updates. >>> > sudo echo 'APT::Periodic::Enable "0";' >> >>> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic >>> > >>> > but doesn't seem to help. am i understanding this incorrectly? >>> > >>> > On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 2:09:16 AM UTC-7, Rickard von Essen wrote: >>> >> >>> >> 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. 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