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package postfix 2.5.5-1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #407572 reported by bing on 2009-08-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #349469: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	postfix (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: postfix

package failed

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: postfix 2.5.5-1.1
SourcePackage: postfix
Title: package postfix 2.5.5-1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

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bing (braddabing) wrote on 2009-08-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (977 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (343.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote on 2009-08-01:

From DpkgTerminalLog

  Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.5.5-1.1_i386.deb) ...
  debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postfix_2.5.5-1.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

This is an apt issue, described in bug #349469. I'm marking this a duplicate.