This is what happened when the bug occured: I added ths to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
then ran: sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5 sudo apt-get update then: $ sudo aptitude install chromium-browser Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg{a} The following partially installed packages will be configured: libpython2.6 python python2.6 tzdata 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded. Need to get 10.8MB of archives. After unpacking 37.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 0.5+svn20091028r30374-0ubuntu1~ucd2 [376kB] Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main chromium-browser 4.0.246.0~svn20091112r31785-0ubuntu1~ucd1 [10.4MB] Fetched 10.8MB in 6s (1,670kB/s) debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable Setting up tzdata (2009r-0ubuntu9.10) ... debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up tzdata (2009r-0ubuntu9.10) ... debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up python2.6 (2.6.4-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libpython2.6 (2.6.4-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up python (2.6.4-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done -- package tzdata 2009r-0ubuntu9.10 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482523 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs