dpkg-reconfigure in fact does not invoke either apt or dpkg, so it's normal that it doesn't take the locks. I think it would be very strange if either dpkg-reconfigure or tasksel accounted for the very many reports of this bug however, as both interfaces are very low-level and I would expect at least one of the bug submitters before now to have mentioned they were running such a command if so.
I think the duplicate bug count/frequency is a sign that something is going wrong and invoking debconf on behalf of the user *without* being initiated from the commandline. I think I also have to say that, if this really comes down to dpkg- reconfigure or tasksel, rather than having these tools claim apt or dpkg locks directly, we should probably regard the failure as user error and arrange to suppress the error reporting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349469 Title: 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/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/349469/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
