dpkg/debconf problem installing custom .deb package

Bug #188723 reported by murrayf
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debconf (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

Hello,

  I have created a custom kernel .deb package for implementing "the alternative firewire stack (EXPERIMENTAL)" because latest kernel in hardy alpha 4 does not include this feature and everything goes right and .deb kernel-headers installs but trying to install the image using dpkg, I have this error, and it never happened to me with other ubuntu versions:

root@modr:/usr/src# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24_2.6.24-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
Seleccionando el paquete linux-image-2.6.24 previamente no seleccionado.
(Leyendo la base de datos ...
122460 ficheros y directorios instalados actualmente.)
Desempaquetando linux-image-2.6.24 (de linux-image-2.6.24_2.6.24-10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ...
Done.
Configurando linux-image-2.6.24 (2.6.24-10.00.Custom) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz
Found kernel: /vmlinuz.old
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-generic
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.24
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Recurso temporalmente no disponible
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error al procesar linux-image-2.6.24 (--install):
 el subproceso post-installation script devolvi�� el c��digo de salida de error 1 <---PLEASE FIX THIS SYMBOLS ALSO "ó in spanish"
Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 linux-image-2.6.24
root@modr:/usr/src#

  I have tried to kill process blocking config.dat using "lsof" but anyone found.
Thanks,
Alberto :)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Honestly, I'm nearly certain that you really must have another process running with the debconf database open. If all else fails, though I hate to recommend this, try rebooting to see if that clears the lock?

Changed in debconf:
status: New → Incomplete
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murrayf (murrayf07) wrote : Re: [Bug 188723] Re: dpkg/debconf problem installing custom .deb package

Hello Colin,

I reported this long time ago and as you says it was related to locked
processes or similar, I forgot to report in ubuntu bugs that the problem
was solved, I don't know exactly how I fixed it (maybe distro upgrade),
but probably the problem was mine, not a debconf bug... Consider it
closed, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Thx,

Alberto.

:)

El vie, 14-11-2008 a las 22:42 +0000, Colin Watson escribió:
> Honestly, I'm nearly certain that you really must have another process
> running with the debconf database open. If all else fails, though I hate
> to recommend this, try rebooting to see if that clears the lock?
>
> ** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: dpkg => debconf
>
> ** Changed in: debconf (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Reported fixed.

Changed in debconf:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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