Hi Bernard, thanks for following and trying to resolve. At the moment I'm puzzled as well - you clearly got rid of the offending /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat as confirmed by ll and lsof in step 10.
Why it is then "in the way" on your retry to upgrade/install I have no idea yet :-/ Maybe it races with itself - does not make sense to me yet. Hmm - two things from here: First of all right after the restart there might indeed be an auto- updater being started and running in the background - make sure this isn't your issue. Check who owns the new file now and that the process is completed. Furthermore you might follow some advice given on [1] - [3]. On top of what I already suggested some users seem to have had success by removing all these files. I'm usually not bold to remove a lot of things, maybe move them away to your roots home so you can restore them in case you need to? [1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/136881/debconf-dbdriver-config-config-dat-is-locked-by-another-process-resource-t [2]: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/DebuggingInstallationIssues#DbDriver_.22config.22_is_locked [3]: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1495612 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/1698772/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
