It happened to me when reloading Synaptics. Perhaps an automated process was trying to check updated at the same time, as when I did it again, there was no error.
-- update-apt-xapian-index crashed with DatabaseLockError in __init__() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590998 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