This bug has been encountered when running Ubiquity with the automatic- ubiquity kernel option in 16.04. The output of systemctl status ubiquity.service has the following:
systemd[1]: Starting Ubuntu live CD installer... start-ubiquity-dm[XXXX]: debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat is locaked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable ... start-ubiquity-dm[XXXX]: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locaked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable start-ubiquity-dm[XXXX]: Debconf database is locked! start-ubiquity-dm[XXXX]: This may be because a package management program is running. systemd[1]: ubiquity.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: Failed to start Ubuntu live CD installer. systemd[1]: ubiquity.service: Unit entered failed state. systemd[1]: ubiquity.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Modifying /usr/share/ubiquity/start-ubiquity-dm to wait for the locks to be released seems to work around the issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128693 Title: Ubiquity installer fails to start silently if debconf's config.dat is locked by another program To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/128693/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
