Right, it's likely that the system was busy doing a refresh of the
indexes or even installing security upgrades in background, those
situations are not reflected nicely in the graphical session (and the
gnome-software warning is not really nice either)
--
You received this bug notification becaus
Eventually, I got an upgrade notification (it listed a bunch of packages
which were scheduled to be updated). I assume whatever process was doing
silent updates in the background grabbed the lock, and once I closed the
dialog software centre was able to install packages.
Some sort of communication
Thank you for your bug report, as indicated by the error message (which
could probably be a bit nicer/user friendly) the packaging system seems
currently locked by another proceess. Did you have any other packaging
tools in use at the time? Did that resolve itself after some time?
** Changed in: g
