Colin, Steve please do something about the message output that newbies does not understand.
"locked by another process" that says it all; its enough for experienced users, but let think the others there is a bug. This is not a bug indeed, but a lack of user's knowledge. "Resource temporarily unavailable" might not be scary for the crowd, but some should possibly prefer something more informative, like "please close first the other package manager, then you will be able to continue" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to debconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349469 Title: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable Status in Aptdaemon: Fix Released Status in Debconf: New Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in debconf package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Upgrading packages that use debconf sometimes fail with the following error: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/349469/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
